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“People are so excited about finally having a way to participate in capturing (greenhouse gases).”

He was actually working as a plumber when, in the depths of an inner-city condo’s utility room, he started developing an idea to help the environment.into useable goods and have those goods sold on the open market,” said Cardiff., a cleantech company in Calgary that has developed a technology to capture carbon monoxide from natural gas appliances, like furnaces and boilers.

CarbinX machines are about the size of two refrigerators and capture carbon emissions by using a hydroxide chemical to absorb it.Story continues below advertisement And rather than just store that carbon, it’s being turned into potassium carbonate, which is then added to soap. “What the carbonate does is act like a water softener. So it’s going to give the lather a really silky feel,” said Michelle Regel, the owner of partnering companyWhile Cardiff admits the soap was developed as a marketing tool, the company is now selling some 100,000 bars every month.

 

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