We developed Biolithe specifically to address and moderate the environmental impact of paper and paper product waste, which accounts for one-third of the municipal solid waste generated in the U.S. As these materials decompose in landfills, they will – unless properly treated – generate methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas that traps over 20 times more atmospheric heat than CO2.
Leading the Charge
Biolithe works by effectively prohibiting methane from being produced while continuing to allow paper to breakdown at its normal rate. There is NO OTHER PRODUCT currently on the market that can do what Biolithe does.
A Cellular Battle
Over 60% of the paper and packaging produced in this country each year ends up in landfills, where it immediately start to degrade. This process occurs
because various microbes, including methane-generating methanogens, consume paper's organic compounds in order to generate energy, or in the case of the methanogens, methane gas.
Research has shown that a number of these microbes can generate energy more efficiently than methanogens can, and as long as they have the nutrients they need, will out-compete the methanogens for these compounds, thus reducing their harmful methane output.
Victory
Biolithe, when applied to paper and paper products, works by providing the methanogens' competitors with these essential nutrients, enabling them to beat the methanogens to the table, so to speak. Without access to the organic compounds they need, the methanogens cannot produce their normal level of methane gas. Methane production is severely curtailed before it can even begin.
