For each product we can quantify how much water and air have been cleaned!

The scientists at Bloom have worked to quantify the specific positive impacts our materials make on freshwater ecosystems and the air we breathe. When brands incorporate Bloom materials into their shoes, they are able to know exactly how each pair is working for good.

We translate these impacts using visuals such as cubic meters of air cleaned of CO2, and liters of water cleaned of harmful nutrients.

In order to ensure these numbers are accurate and trustworthy, we have created the Bloom Certification system to track our impacts from our factory to you!

Every product using Bloom cleans at a minimum 8 liters of water and 5 cubic meters of air of CO2. Together we can make a difference for the environment!

The algae powder is blended with polymers to produce BLOOM™ pellets that are ready to be made into products!

A base resin and the algae powder is melted and mixed together using a customized twin screw extruder. The final product is an algae pellet made of at least 45% algae! It is now ready to be delivered to a brand’s factory to be transformed into consumer products!

Using heat, the algae paste is dried to produce crunchy flakes.

The process usually includes an industrial microwave with multiple heating chambers. Under the right conditions, the algae can actually be solar dried, eliminating the energy needed to power the microwave. The algae flakes are now ready to be delivered to BLOOM™ for it’s final conversion stages! The algae flakes can be stored until needed.

Using algae technology, we intercept pollution before it negatively impacts nature, supporting our transformation from a linear to a circular economy.

While the mobile harvesters respond to an emergency algae bloom, it is our goal that the blooms never happen to begin with. That is why we partner with Clearas to implement algae harvesting technology at waste water treatment facilities. CLEARAS Water Recovery delivers biological-based wastewater treatment solutions for nutrient recovery. Municipal and industrial dischargers leverage Advanced Biological Nutrient Recovery (ABNR™) technology to cost-effectively recover phosphorus, nitrogen, and other constituents. As a bolt-on solution, ABNR™ enables customers to realize resource recovery across the treatment cycle. Benefits include reuse-quality water, recycled carbon dioxide, and a valuable plant-based biomaterial.

Through a unique application of biomimicry, ABNR™ leverages and enhances nature’s time tested patterns of nutrient recovery by transferring the problem – algae blooms – into the solution.

ABNR™ is a sustainable and regenerative approach to nutrient treatment. It achieves best-in-class water quality, is modular and scalable, and produces a plant-based biomaterial co-product. That co-product is upcycled into diversified and growing markets including plastics, foams, feeds, and soil enhancements. Customers benefit from a residual income stream created from the sale and upcycling of this valuable plant-based biomaterial.

Algae absorbs the pollution at an uncontrollable rate causing algae blooms that deplete oxygen levels and kill plant and animal life.

Algae is Earth’s smallest plant…kind of. It’s plant-like, meaning it doesn’t have a root system, leaves, and stems, but it does contain chlorophyll and it does photosynthesize. Algae is one of the earliest organism to inhabit Earth and the first to photosynthesize – converting solar energy into oxygen.

Algae is the fastest growing “plant” on Earth! Under the right conditions, it can double its size in as little as 24 hours! It requires minimal energy for growth making it one of the most renewable resources on the planet.

There are over 72,000 species of algae! Some scientists actually estimate there are anywhere from 30,000-1 million species of algae!

Algae is very adaptable! You can find algae in fresh and salt water, under polar ice sheets, on tree trunks, and even on animal fur!

Over 70% of the world’s oxygen comes from algae! This is true because most of Earth’s surface is water, where algae thrive. You can thank algae for the refreshing air you breathe!