Energy recovery from waste

BIQ is the first building in the world to have a bioreactor façade. Microalgae are cultivated in the glass elements that make up its “bio skin”.

Where other cloud providers waste the heat from servers, Nerdalize uses it to heat tap water. Their servers heat water to 55 °C to drastically reduce gas use.

This research paper outlines the various possibilities for the reuse of leftover bread.

BroodNodig is a Rotterdam-based company that sets up bread bins across the city. Citizens can put in old, no longer edible bread so that it can be recycled.

A waste company in the Netherlands, Meerlanden, is using old bread from a large hotel chain as input in their anaerobic digester.