Turning Wet Waste into Clean Electricity Without Combustion

Most of the world’s organic waste is wet. Food scraps, sewage and factory byproducts are everywhere, yet they are notoriously difficult and expensive to turn into energy because traditional systems depend on drying and combustion.

Atsushi (Alex) Mazawa, Co-Founder and CEO of Rhinoflux, explains how his team has developed an electrochemical, liquid-based technology that works more like a battery than a furnace. By charging a proprietary liquid with biomass and then discharging it to generate power, Rhinoflux can produce up to 2,000 kWh of electricity from a single ton of typical wet waste—without the costly drying step.

The process also creates high-purity biogenic CO₂, originally captured from the atmosphere by plants, which can be reused in applications such as carbonated beverages, dry ice and chemical production. With pilot partners including The ‪Coca-Cola‬ Company and Veolia, the company is scaling in Japan and preparing for expansion into the United States and Europe.