ESR International LLC is a research and development company dedicated to the total elimination of landfill.
The centerpiece of ESR
technology is a unique bi-directional dense medium barrel
that is, undoubtedly, the most accurate dense medium
separator on the market today. In this revolutionary
sorting process, the suspension fines needed to change the
density of water for all separations below a density of 1.6
are obtained nowhere else but from the ultra-fine inorganic
metals and glass generated in abundance by hammer-mill
shredding. Normally these fines simply report to landfill,
but now they compete head-on with some of the finest
suspension-creating materials on the market today.
Paradoxically this shredder dust of absolutely no value
whatsoever totally transformed the economics of recycling
waste.
Deriving
Value from Waste
What happens when we take
the logic of a large mineral separation facility and apply
it to the recycling of automobile, industrial, electronic
and municipal waste? Over 20 years ago, ESR International
posed this question and got some fairly amazing answers.
What was once considered waste, what once demanded a great
deal of money to landfill, suddenly transforms itself into
multiple streams of metals and plastics worth at times
thousands of dollars per ton. When someone is able to
extract, from materials destined for landfill, over 40 tons
per hour of non-ferrous metals at an average value of over
$1,000 per ton, then we begin to realize that in
landfilling waste we are often throwing away some of the
most valuable resources our planet has to offer.
Agriculture
What happens when we take
the same dense medium logic and apply it to the processing
of root vegetables such as carrots, potatoes, salsifies,
red beets and sugar beets? Over twenty years ago, ESR found
an answer. It may be easy is to separate out stones and
other extraneous material, but it is an entirely different
matter to separate good vegetables from bad vegetables when
the difference in density between the two is just a few
points to the third decimal place. How easy it is to reject
an entire load of potatoes or sugar beets and consign them
to waste simply because of few of them have gone bad in
storage. But with this new dense medium process, we can
keep what is good and reject only what is bad, and once
again, the suspension fines needed to change the density of
water are obtained nowhere else but from the dirt that
mechanical harvesters extract along with the root
vegetables. Paradoxically this ultra-fine dirt which no
body wanted totally transformed the economics of sorting
root vegetables.
Food
Waste
But there is a limit to the logic of dense medium separation, especially with regard to the recycling of food waste. Here ESR had to step totally outside its field of expertise and turn to the wisdom of nature. The reflection here was truly simple. What happens when the natural world is presented all at once with an abundance of putrescent waste? Hundreds of millions of years ago nature solved this problem with the fly and the larvae that they leave behind. But ESR discovered that not just any fly will do, since many flies carry diseases and their life cycles are hard to regulate and control. After 7 years of research, ESR focused on the amazing digestive powers of the larvae of the black soldier fly, and devised and patented a bioconversion device that allows this creature to complete its life cycle in an efficient and controlled manner. With this amazing creature we witness a 95% reduction in the weight and volume of food waste within a matter of just a few hours, and after self-harvesting into a collection bin, these tiny creatures represent a bundle of nutrients that rivals in commercial value the finest fish meal. Please visit www.TheBioPod.com for more information on our food waste diversion and recycling systems.
