By Radha Agarwal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince Rupert Northern View Roy S. Jones Jr., a hereditary chief from Haida Gwaii, is advocating for a machine that claims to convert municipal waste into energy and potentially eliminate landfills. He leads Aboriginal Equity Partners Incorporated (AEPI), a First Nations-owned business, and owns Pacific Balance Marine Management Corporation. Jones explains that this pyrolysis machine, built by their partner company Endpoint Recovery, uses a thermal cracking system to convert municipal solid waste, plastics, tires, and medical waste into commercially valuable products such as diesel and synthetic graphite. However, the appliance cannot process metal and glass. \u201cPyrolysis is catalytic cooking of matter without oxygen. It\u2019s an ancient practice, the Egyptians did it,\u201d said Jones. \u201cIt\u2019s really interesting, because we could totally eliminate garbage dumps.\u201d… <\/p>\n
By Radha Agarwal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince Rupert Northern View Roy S. Jones Jr., a hereditary chief from Haida Gwaii, is advocating for a machine that claims to convert municipal waste into energy and potentially eliminate landfills. He leads Aboriginal Equity Partners Incorporated (AEPI), a First Nations-owned business, and owns Pacific Balance Marine Management Corporation. Jones explains that this pyrolysis machine, built by their partner company Endpoint Recovery, uses a thermal cracking system to convert municipal solid waste, plastics, tires, and medical waste into commercially valuable products such as diesel and synthetic graphite. However, the appliance cannot process metal and glass. \u201cPyrolysis is catalytic cooking of matter without oxygen. It\u2019s an ancient practice, the Egyptians did it,\u201d said Jones. \u201cIt\u2019s really interesting, because we could totally eliminate garbage dumps.\u201d... <\/p>\n