Local company turns rice waste into ‘carbon gold’
Graphyte buys rice hulls and forestry waste from mills in Pine Bluff, Ark., and processes them into bricks. It layers the bricks in the ground with technology to assure that water is not present. By the end of 2025, it intends to have capacity to keep 65,000 tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. (Courtesy/Graphyte)
Graphyte is trying to be one part of the climate solution, straight from the ground up.
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