Disruptive Technology Turns Trash Into Cash

Breakthrough business gets $500,000 to help build commercial garbage processing plant

Sustane Technologies’ distruptive technology is able to separate metal, plastic, and biomass materials from garbage to create viable recycling and fuel products, including pyrolized plastics that can be burned with diesel and in other combustion engines. Courtesy Sustane Technologies

Peter Vinall has risked much to build a business that could be the solution to the world’s garbage problem.

The engineer and businessman in him knew the technology was viable, but putting his retirement savings on the line wasn’t easy. Sometimes his wife wondered if maybe he wasn’t risking too much.

But now the federal government and an angel investor are on board and taking the bet with him. It’s not much of a risk, really—the technology is proven and revolutionary.

It's sorting the plastic from the organic material that is revolutionary.