Coal Waste: Across the globe, billions of tonnes of coal tailings pose significant environmental hazards, including groundwater contamination, methane emissions, and the risk of spontaneous combustion. The sheer scale of this waste problem demands a large-scale, effective solution.
Soil Degradation: Intensive farming practices and erosion are leading to the rapid decline of productive soils worldwide, threatening food security and ecosystem stability on a global scale.
Climate Change: The urgent need to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels to combat global warming is a challenge that requires innovative, large-scale interventions like Rock2Soil.
Rehabilitate: Rock2Soil's pyrolysis technology can process vast quantities of coal waste, converting it into char. This scalable approach transforms a major environmental liability into a valuable resource that sequesters carbon and improves soil health.
Historically, coal waste reprocessing and remediation solutions have proved to be technically feasible but not economically viable. Our decades of experience in the mining industry and multiple investigations into coal waste reprocessing technologies have led to the development of Rock2Soil's unique economic model that will generate from one project many times more char than the current global biochar production.
Remove: The pyrolysis and enhanced rock weathering processes deployed by Rock2Soil capture capture on a scale large enough to impact global CO2 levels significantly, locking away carbon for thousands of years.
The result? Rock2Soil's unique model will remove at least 10 times more CO2 annually from one project than the global enhanced rock weathering industry removes annually.
Remineralise: By blending the char with silicate rock dust - a waste byproduct of large-scale mining - Rock2Soil can enhance soil fertility on a global scale. This process is uniquely scalable and capable of addressing soil degradation across millions of hectares of agricultural land.
Rock2Soil's unique model allows for the annual generation of at least 10 times more rock dust from one project than the current total global enhanced rock weathering production.