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Arizona State University teams up with City of Mesa on pilot project to remove greenhouse gases with algae

Arizona State University teams up with City of Mesa on pilot project to remove greenhouse gases with algae

ASU research centers led by Fulton Schools faculty members are helping one of Arizona’s larger municipalities with the engineering involved in a pilot recycling project that uses algae to remove greenhouses gases. The project site in the city of Mesa is a wastewater treatment plant — one that like many other such facilities emits carbon dioxide and methane, which are among greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere and contributing to global warming and other troubling climate changes. ASU’s Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, directed by Professor Bruce Rittmann, and the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, directed by Professor Klaus Lackner and associate research director Justin Flory, are teaming up on the project they hope will provide a model for environmental sustainability for other wastewater plant operations to emulate.

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