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Silicon Valley is enamored with a company that pumps poop underground

Alphabet and Meta are paying this startup to inject organic waste into wells.

aBig brands are paying startup Vaulted Deep $58.3 million to shoot poop and other organic waste products into underground wells as a way to fight climate change. It’s Frontier’s biggest agreement yet and a big endorsement of Vaulted Deep’s technology that the startup says will allow it to scale up a lot faster than its competitors in the growing carbon removal industry. But its mature technology means “that we were sort of born a teenager,” says Vaulted Deep CEO Julia Reichelstein, who was an investor at climate VC fund Piva Capital before she hopped on board.

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