Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. helps protect precious water resources by changing the way cities around the world manage nutrients in wastewater streams. The company?s Pearl® and WASSTRIP® technologies sustainably transform phosphorus and nitrogen recovered from municipal and industrial water treatment facilities into a high-value, eco-friendly fertilizer, sold and marketed by Ostara as Crystal Green®. Crystal Green?s unique Root-Activated? mode-of-action minimizes phosphorus tie-up in the soil, thus enhancing crop yield and performance, and significantly reducing nutrient leaching and runoff.
With Ostara?s technology, cities around the world can have an impact on not only reducing point source pollution by the efficient upcycling of otherwise polluting nutrients but also non-point source pollution with the responsible release of these nutrients in the form of fertilizer, which helps to nourish the crops we need to grow the world?s food supply. Ostara operates multiple facilities throughout North America and Europe and opened the world?s largest nutrient recovery facility in partnership with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago in spring 2016.