Closing the Loop on Waste
Waste is more than an end-of-life problem.
USS helps organizations assess, process, recover, and repurpose waste streams to create new sources of energy, materials, agricultural inputs, and economic value.
From organic waste and food residuals to e-waste and hard-to-recycle plastics, we connect the right technologies to the right feedstocks—and to the infrastructure that can use what is recovered.
Transforming waste streams into valuable resources
Waste Streams → Processing → Resource Recovery → Energy / Materials / Agriculture → Productive Use
Waste-to-Value Technologies
No single technology solves every waste challenge. USS evaluates the characteristics of each waste stream first, then identifies the appropriate recovery, conversion, and reuse pathway.
Anaerobic Digestion
Transform suitable organic waste into biogas, digestate, and productive resources. USS evaluates appropriate organic feedstocks such as food waste, agricultural residues, manure, and other suitable organics through controlled biological digestion to determine viable recovery pathways and outputs. Potential outputs include biogas, energy, digestate, and agricultural or soil applications.
Plastic-to-Value
Recover value from suitable hard-plastic streams through advanced conversion technologies. USS can evaluate appropriate hard-plastic feedstocks for pyrolysis-based recovery, subject to feedstock characteristics, technology specifications, permitting, and project economics. Potential outputs can include pyrolysis oil, process gas, and solid residues. Pyrolysis performance depends heavily on the specific plastic feedstocks and operating conditions.
E-Waste Recovery
Recover valuable components and materials from discarded electronics through responsible recovery pathways. E-waste may contain recoverable components and materials, while also requiring appropriate handling and qualified downstream processing for hazardous components. Potential pathways include component recovery, metals recovery, material separation, refurbishment and reuse, and responsible downstream processing.
Materials & Resource Recovery
Separate, recover, and redirect valuable materials before they become disposal costs. USS evaluates appropriate waste streams for material separation, recovery, reuse, and integration into productive applications. Potential recovery categories include metals, plastics, organics, reusable materials, nutrients, and industrial residuals.
Different waste streams require different recovery pathways. USS evaluates the feedstock first, then designs the system around the most appropriate technology, output, and end use.
From Waste to Resource Value
What was once a disposal cost can become an input for energy, agriculture, manufacturing, and resilient infrastructure.
DIVERT
Reduce the volume of appropriate materials directed toward disposal.
RECOVER
Capture materials, nutrients, components, and energy that would otherwise be lost.
CONVERT
Transform suitable waste streams through biological, mechanical, or thermochemical processes.
REUSE
Return recovered resources to productive applications across power, water, food, materials, and industry.
One System's Waste Can Become Another System's Resource
USS evaluates the technical, environmental, and economic potential of each recovery pathway—because resilience must create value, not simply move waste from one place to another.
FROM CONCEPT TO DEPLOYMENT
USS works with technology providers, project stakeholders, and customers to evaluate opportunities, develop practical solutions, and move qualified projects toward deployment.
IDENTIFY THE OPPORTUNITY
Understand the need before recommending the solution.
We evaluate the waste stream, site conditions, infrastructure requirements, available resources, desired outcomes, and project constraints.
DESIGN THE SOLUTION
Match the right technology to the right application.
USS works across appropriate technology and equipment solutions to develop an integrated approach suited to the project—not a one-size-fits-all system.
DEVELOP FOR DEPLOYMENT
Build a practical path from opportunity to implementation.
Qualified projects can advance through technical evaluation, supplier coordination, project development, pilot opportunities, and phased deployment.
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS THAT EXTEND OUR CAPABILITIES
USS does not need to manufacture every technology to deliver infrastructure value. We work with qualified technology providers, manufacturers, engineering resources, project stakeholders, and implementation partners to bring the appropriate capabilities together for each opportunity. Our role is to help connect the need, technology, economics, and implementation pathway.
Start With Your Waste Stream
Tell us what you're generating, where it is going today, and what you would like to accomplish. USS can use that information to determine the appropriate next step.