In the Founder's Words

Robust carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas removal is needed, and needed rapidly, to limit the effects of climate change and to meet our climate goals,” said Dr. Joachim Katchinoff, CREW Co-Founder and CEO. “Having researched the global carbon cycle for a decade, it’s imperative that we deploy technologies like ours to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a way that is highly measurable, permanent, and affordable. CREW’s approach has identified that water resource recovery facilities, where trillions of microbes remove pollutants from wastewater including carbon, are one of the best locations to make positive climate impact happen. Our technology speeds up the same reactions that control greenhouse gas levels on Earth using minerals to soak up and lock in CO2 from the wastewater treatment process. This country has spent decades building amazing wastewater treatment infrastructure to keep our environment safe; now, with CREW’s technology, we can work with utility and industrial partners to supplement their treatment processes in a way that can measurably remove CO2 at scale while enabling safe and efficient wastewater treatment.