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Having a micro garden in each condo and house, and fertilizing it with liquid rapidly extracted from food scraps. UFO, Inc. applies scientific knowledge towards creating the devices that make this possible. This means organic food growing for free at home, from recycled food scraps. This reduces the unsustainable reliance of food production on finite resources (water, phosphorous) and polluting processes (fossil fuel-based nitrogen fertilizer).

Recycling organic matter can be an exact science. A wealth of published scientific experiments and mathematical models demonstrate the mechanisms by which organic matter is mineralized (into plant nutrients) and what affects pathogen levels and acidity in processed organic waste. These factors determine the quality of the recycled material as fertilizer. UFO creates technology that effortlessly and rapidly extracts plant nutrients from food waste, and fits even in condos. UFO's ecological goal is to reduce gaps in the recycling loop, and the carbon footprint of producing, transporting and storing edible plants, by growing them in-house. UFO's social purpose is to empower urban resident to gorw food from waste, to prevent artificial scarcity.

UFO's first developed product is the adobe-designed Earthworm System, which transforms biodegradable waste into an odorless, earthworms-free fertilizer in 20 days. Another product in development is the “Clean Food Waste”, a kitchen device which dries and can extract liquid fertilizer from food scraps. UFO also created excel applications based on mathematical models, to better process solid organic waste as well. Income from initial products will allow our R&D lab to move on to more futuristic concepts such as tele-guided gardening robots.

People

UFO, Inc. is founded by Hala Chaoui, PhD in Agricultural Engineering and published in waste and biomass conversion (cited 60 times). Hala conceptualized UFO's products and created proof of concepts. UFO is planned to include a management and sales expert, and an instrumentation expert.

Currently UFO consist of a laptop, experiments in collaborating labs, on a greenhouse shelf and at home, and a shared desk at CSI (Annex location) in Toronto.

Updates on collaborators, partners and advisors coming soon!

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