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Micron’s new Delta facility finding better ways to deal with waste

A Delta-based company is hoping to reinvent conventional organic waste processing with state-of-the-art engineering and computer sciences as well as proprietary biotechnology. Micron Waste Technologies Inc.
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Micron Waste R&D team members (from left) Tapas Biswas, Ziba Hajizadeh, co-founder and chief technology officer Dr. Bob Bhushan and Nathan Ho in front of the Micron Waste Digester System, which cleanly processes food and cannabis waste while extracting and purifying wastewater.

A Delta-based company is hoping to reinvent conventional organic waste processing with state-of-the-art engineering and computer sciences as well as proprietary biotechnology.

Micron Waste Technologies Inc., located in the Tilbury Industrial Park, has developed a clean technology platform that operates without smell or noise, extracting and purifying water from waste for safe discharge or reuse.

It has also developed a cannabis waste processing system, which allows cannabinoid-free bio-solids to be fed to livestock. 

All research and development of the Micron system has been done at the new Delta facility, which opened last year.

Recently the company was awarded an industrial design certificate for its food and cannabis waste digester.

The cannabis waste digester, an industrial-grade organic waste processor, pulverizes and renders organic waste in combination with a proprietary blend of microbes and enzymes designed and developed by Micron. Alternatively, the treated regulatory-compliant greywater from the digester, which meets municipal discharge standards, can be safely discharged.

Active pharmaceutical compounds in cannabis waste are further biologically treated to denature cannabinoids present, keeping them out of waste streams.

“It has always been Micron’s intention to create a system that was not only best-in-class but one that re-invented that class entirely,” said Micron president Alfred Wong. “Our platform marries organic waste digestion with water reclamation and purification to solve our customers’ waste processing needs cleanly, cost-effectively and without dumping effluent downstream where it causes problems for municipal waste treatments plants.”

The digester system also uses advanced computer science for remote real-time diagnostics monitoring and control. The comprehensive system has been engineered to operate on-site where needed in a contained unit which does not emit sound or smell, while exempting customers from the need to haul, incinerate or landfill waste.

“We feel we are building a better mouse trap and that mouse trap will address challenges not only in the cannabis industry but also in the food waste industry,” added Wong. “We’re helping municipalities and federal governments to look at how we can improve our environmental commitments by enacting regulations that make sense for industry as well as the environment. The cannabis industry is growing. It is our hope that Micron will be a leader in managing Canada’s cannabis waste.”