Windfall Bio’s methane eating microbes (which it calls mems) are spread over soil by growers. The microbes both eat up methane in the soil and capture nitrogen from the air to produce organic fertiliser for a double sustainability win.
In demonstrating a repeatable process to produce metric tonne quantities of mems, Windfall claims it is significantly de-risking and rapidly scaling up commercial-scale deployments of its nature-based solution.
Windfall’s solution aims to harness mems to transform methane from any source into valuable outputs, like fertiliser for organic farming, carbon credits, and progress toward sustainability targets and goals.
So it can solely focus on bringing its solution to multiple industries, Windfall is working with contract manufacturing organisations to accelerate the production of its mems.
For this production, Windfall partnered with FERMWORX, a specialty fermentation company, enabling commercial-scale operation and validating its ability to support large-scale customer deployments in any industry and its organic fertiliser output.
Windfall’s mems aim to consume methane as a food source, transforming into nitrogen-rich biomass that can be processed into high-value organic fertiliser for the user itself or to be sold in the market – reducing the negative environmental impacts associated with the overuse of synthetic fertiliser while strengthening the fertilizer supply chain.
“Reaching commercial-scale production of our mems marks a pivotal milestone for Windfall Bio and the future of methane removal,” said Josh Silverman, co-founder and CEO of Windfall Bio.
“This achievement not only demonstrates our ability to deploy a nature-based solution at scale but also redefines how industries can turn harmful methane emissions into valuable products like organic fertiliser.
“By partnering with trusted CMOs like FERMWORX, we’ve fast-tracked our mission to accelerate methane removal across sectors while staying focused on what we do best – creating mems and getting our solution in the hands of our customers to deliver real economic and environmental value on a global scale.”
