Teams

Seeking diversion pathways to reduce waste and utilize unused food from the resort’s restaurant for animal feed or composting.

Launching a youth-led enterprise to divert post-consumer textiles from Michigan landfills for recycling.

Expanding its successful household battery recycling drop-off program to additional city facilities.

Aims to establish a Michigan location dedicated to complete solar panel recycling and processing.

Establishing a scalable pilot that recovers surplus food and organic kitchen waste generated by restaurants for redistribution as prepared meals, upcycled food production, and compost.

Expanding its existing roll-off dumpster rental business to include a dedicated construction and demolition material recovery and reuse program.

Aims to expand its refill stations for liquid home and personal care products into Michigan-based retailers, hospitality, campus, and institutional locations.

Deploying modular equipment at materials recovery facilities or as a scalable extension to paper mills that allows for efficient separation and recovery of fiber from coated paper packaging.

Converts craft beverage brewing byproducts, and wastewater into high-value resources like soil amendments, nutrient adders, and clean water.

Launching the HOPE to Table Collective (HTTC), where chefs transform surplus, soon-to-expire, and imperfect food sourced from restaurants, farms, and retailers into nutritious frozen meals distributed to food pantry clients.

Piloting a refillable glass rewash hub that will collect, industrially wash, inspect, and redistribute glass bottles and jars for local food and beverage producers, retailers, and institutional kitchens.

Operates Detroit’s only public drop-off recycling center free of charge for Detroit residents, collecting cardboard, metals, plastics, glass, hard-to-recycle items and more.

Converting post-consumer and industrial thermoplastics into high-performance honeycomb core panels used in automotive, marine, office furniture, and sporting goods applications.

The center is establishing the Hub of Recycling and Awareness to build a shared recycling culture and increase material diversion across the community.

Operating quarterly large-scale swap festivals, ReVamp collects, sorts, weighs, and redistributes thousands of pounds of clothing.

Deploying a gamified waste-reduction platform that enables residents to sign up, earn points, climb leaderboards, and win prizes based on their waste and recycling behavior.

Creating rural community drop-off programs to offer food waste collection for composting.

Piloting a black soldier fly composting system utilizing institutional organic waste.

Developing a composting network where food waste generated in Detroit is collected and delivered to Detroit-based urban farm compost operations.

Developing the first municipal log recovery yard in Michigan that will transform wood waste into long-lived lumber, soil-improving biochar, clean mulch, and firewood.

Expanding post-consumer composting across campus.

Seeking engagement with Marquette County municipalities to increase access to composting.

Deploying small-scale, low-cost, portable systems to densify crop and forest residues into higher-value biobased products.

Creating a roadmap to dramatically increase residential access to food scrap composting throughout the county.

Recycling wind turbine blades into lightweight aggregate for redi-mix and pre-cast concretes.

Building its first cryomill plant for end-of-life electric vehicle batteries and e-waste.

Uses a proprietary process to divert difficult-to-recycle, landfill-bound plastic (e.g., grocery bags and pallet shrink wrap) into an asphalt additive.

Building a reprocessing solution for post-industrial plastic extrusion and injection molding scrap.

Developing a multi-modal sorting technology that uses acoustic signatures to sort recyclable plastics.

Building a facility in Michigan to produce a recycled-paper-based foam that replaces plastic packaging foams.