Commerce awards $2.4 million to develop industrial symbiosis projects
Grants support collaborative projects to advance sustainable waste reduction, recycling innovation and economic growth
OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington State Department of Commerce announced $2,425,000 to seven companies and organizations that are turning waste into value. The innovative projects help accelerate Washington’s circular economy by diverting waste streams generated by industry and transform it into beneficial resources for use by another industry.
“Washington’s competitive edges comes from our ability to innovate,” said Interim Director Sarah Clifthorne. “Industrial symbiosis helps us rethink how we use resources and how we can grow our economy. By supporting businesses turning waste into resources, we can create opportunities for stronger local economies and communities.”
The Industrial Symbiosis Grant Program funds research and development, feasibility studies, engineering and design, pilot projects, deployment, scaling, and the development of industrial symbiosis parks for shared resource use.
“The circular economy helps Washington achieve dual wins in economic growth and climate impact,” said Andrea Chartock, Commerce assistant director of the Office of Economic Development and Competitiveness. “We can achieve our environmental commitments while still supporting a strong economy for all Washingtonians and the Industrial Symbiosis Program does just that.”
Awards
- Cascadia Conservation District (Chelan County): $54,871 to deploy mobile processing to convert woody debris – typically disposed of by chipping, open burning, or landfilling – into a beneficial biochar product.
- Clean-Vantage (Benton County): $469,000 to research and develop a new biological process to convert the carbon dioxide by-product from wet organic waste, with molecular hydrogen into high grade renewable natural gas.
- Composite Recycling Technology Center (Clallam County): $303,000 to pilot-scale converting locally sourced industrial and post-consumer waste materials into a durable, moldable construction block.
- Earthwise/Salvage Lumber Warehouse (King County): $495,129 to accelerate wood circularity by processing and transforming rough salvaged lumber and wood waste into market-ready high-demand building products.
- Intercept Carbon (Snohomish County): $385,500 to develop small-scale dedicated supply reactor to generate circular activated hydrochar, nutrified carbon pellets, and nutrient balanced liquid fertilizer products for marketable pathways.
- Palouse Fiber (Garfield County): $432,000 to establish fiber-manufacturing systems to capture, process, and reintegrate underutilized or disposed fiber waste as productive feedstock.
- Port of Port Townsend (Jefferson County): $285,000 to develop an Industrial Symbiosis park for wood circularity. Facilitate shared resources and processing, for repurposing of wood waste generated from current and future businesses.
“With these opportunities, we’re able to connect some of Washington’s greatest existing strengths and develop technologies that bring their knowledge and resources together in entirely new ways,” said Joel Lippold, Composite Recycling Technology Center’s director of Composites. “At CRTC, that means transforming waste into new materials and commercially viable products, while building the knowledge, capabilities, and relationships from which new industries and jobs can grow here in Washington.”
Selected projects are required to cost-share with a one-to-one dollar match to the awarded amount, representing a combined total of $4.85 million in industrial symbiosis work taking place through June 30, 2027.
With these awards, direct project investments have now been made in seventeen counties across Washington.
Washington led the nation, creating the Industrial Symbiosis Grant Program in 2021 (RCW 43.31.635) to drive a strong circular economy. Learn more by visiting the Industrial Symbiosis Program web landing page.
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