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Startups UK Worries About Where University Tech Spinouts Begin, and Where They End Up Much of the world’s wastewater is still treated using a century-old, energy-intensive process of pumping oxygen through tanks of sewage. Thames Water, the UK’s largest water company, is now trialing an alternative developed at Newcastle University that uses microbes and electrodes to break down waste. It both uses less energy and gives off ammonia that can be recovered and sold as fertilizer. Elizabeth Heidrich came up with the idea in 2012, and when environmental engineer Pavlina Theodosiou joined her lab eight years later they began trying to turn the research into a business. Their company, METzero, spun out of Newcastle in 2024 and has since raised about £750,000 ($1 million) in grants.
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