This week Ze-gen’s CEO, Bill Davis, joins a diverse group of the world’s leaders from government, business and civil society at the 5^th annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York to examine today’s most pressing global challenges and transform that awareness into action. The meeting is an extraordinary opportunity for CGI members to address significant global challenges and showcase Commitments to change that specifically address these concerns. This year, Ze-gen is introducing its project “The Beginning of the End of Landfilling.” The project responds to the CGI’s Commitments to Action to address global economic, environmental, and social challenges.  Our project specifically addresses environmental sustainability, as Ze-gen’s strategy is focused on developing innovative technological solutions to reduce landfills and find beneficial uses for discarded material.  Ze-gen’s technology can convert waste to energy and other products using advanced gasification in a way that improves the environment and prevents environmental degradation.

“The Beginning of the End of Landfilling” represents Ze-gen’s first commercial demonstration facility that converts solid waste material, which otherwise would be landfilled, into synthesis gas (a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide).   The commitment will offset the consumption of all fossil fuels at the facility where Ze-gen’s technology will be employed, avoid the landfilling of 1.75 million tons of waste, prevent landfill gas emissions, and harness the latent energy value of those materials to produce renewable, low-emissions, energy.  This first project aims to serve as a model for other cities throughout the world looking for sustainable solutions to waste disposal that seek to find higher and better uses for discarded materials using advanced technologies.

We are looking forward to the opportunity to meet with leaders similarly committed to take tangible steps toward combating the serious environmental and public health challenges that surround global waste resolution.