SOLUTIONS

Solutions for Nutrient Recovery, Water Quality, and Value Creation

Explore how GSR Solutions helps farm operations, anaerobic digesters, food processors, utilities, and fertilizer markets turn nutrient-rich waste streams into practical value.

Proven

On-Farm Commercial Operation

99%+

N&P Recovery Demonstrated

10

N&P Fertilizer Products in Market

15

Projects & Feasibility Studies

Select a solution area for anaerobic digesters, livestock farms, food processors, utilities, fertilizer, and other product pathways.

Global Challenge

GSR Biotech Chosen by These Seekers Among a Handful of Problem Solvers Worldwide

Recognized for addressing nutrient recovery, manure management, and waste-to-value challenges through innovative biotechnology.

Logos of seekers who chose GSR biotech

Why This Recognition Matters

This recognition reflects the scale and urgency of nutrient recovery. The USDA-EPA-led Global Nutrient Recycling Challenge (2015–2016) sought practical, affordable solutions to recover nitrogen and phosphorus from manure while creating useful products and reducing pollution risk. U.S. livestock and poultry operations generate more than 1.4 billion tons of manure annually, underscoring the need for scalable nutrient-management technologies.

Platform Relevance

GSR’s biotechnology platform supports pathways across nutrient recovery, fertilizer production, water polishing, and related waste-to-value applications.


Anaerobic Digesters

Improve Nutrient Management Around Digester Operations

Anaerobic digesters generating electricity or renewable natural gas can still leave nutrient-rich effluent streams that create water-quality, handling, and management challenges.

The Challenge

Digesters may help capture methane and generate energy, but they do not necessarily solve downstream nitrogen and phosphorus management.

GSR Solution

GSR’s nutrient recovery solutions are designed to work with anaerobic digester systems to recover nutrients, support cleaner water outcomes, and create valuable downstream product opportunities.

Benefits

  • Better nutrient management for digester operations
  • Improved water-quality outcomes
  • Support for fertilizer and soil-input production — more under Fertilizer & Soil Health
  • Support for project economics and scale-up planning

Anaerobic digester solution
Anaerobic digester solution

Farm & Livestock Operations

Reduce Nutrient Loss and Recover More Value on Farms

Farms and livestock operations face increasing pressure to manage manure and nutrient-rich residuals more effectively while protecting nearby water resources.

The Challenge

Excess nutrients can contribute to runoff, increase handling burden, and reduce the overall value captured from manure and digestate.

GSR Solution

GSR supports nutrient recovery pathways for multiple livestock-farm configurations, including:

  • livestock farms with anaerobic digesters
  • livestock farms managing raw manure without digesters

These solutions are designed to help capture nutrient value from livestock-related waste streams and convert it into more stable and useful outputs, including fertilizer and soil-input opportunities.

Benefits

  • Reduced nutrient runoff risk
  • Improved on-farm nutrient stewardship
  • Support for fertilizer and soil-input production
  • Better alignment with long-term water-quality goals
Farm and livestock solution
Farm and livestock solution

Utilities

Support Resource Recovery Beyond Energy Generation Alone

Utilities and infrastructure partners involved in organic waste, wastewater, or digester-related projects may need stronger nutrient-management and resource-recovery outcomes.

The Challenge

Energy generation alone may not fully address downstream nutrient handling, water-quality priorities, or broader project-value opportunities.

GSR Solution

GSR supports utility-relevant pathways that connect nutrient recovery, water stewardship, and potential downstream product value around existing or planned project infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Added value around existing infrastructure
  • Stronger phosphorus and nitrogen management relevance
  • Support for community water-quality outcomes
  • More complete resource-recovery positioning
Utility solution
Utility solution

Food & Beverage Operations

Turn Organic Residuals Into More Useful Outputs

Food and beverage processors often manage organic residual streams that carry disposal costs, operational burden, and nutrient-related challenges.

The Challenge

Valuable nutrients and organics may be underutilized while processors face pressure to reduce waste, lower handling costs, and strengthen sustainability performance.

GSR Solution

GSR develops recovery pathways that can help convert suitable food and beverage residual streams into useful products while supporting better environmental outcomes.

Benefits

  • Better use of organic residual streams
  • Potential product and value recovery
  • Support for environmental goals
  • Improved waste-to-value positioning
Food and beverage solution
Food and beverage solution

Fertilizer & Soil Health

Support Better Plant Nutrition and Stronger Soil Performance

Growers and horticultural users are looking for inputs that support yield, nutrient efficiency, soil quality, and practical field performance.

The Challenge

Nutrient loss, weak retention, and poor timing can reduce both agronomic performance and environmental outcomes over time.

GSR Solution

GSR’s agriscience-related pathways support organic fertilizer and plant nutrition products designed to deliver crop value from recovered nutrient streams while helping keep nutrients in the crop-and-soil system.

Branded Products

Through its Agriscience business, GSR develops plant nutrition products that are commercialized under the NutriHarvest platform. These products are designed to support nutrient efficiency, crop performance, and more circular agricultural systems.

Independent Field Validation

Independent field trials have also evaluated nutrient-recovered fertilizers produced using GSR technology across multiple crops.

  • Corn yield improvement of +14.2% vs untreated
  • +11.4 bu/ac in corn vs a leading organic commercial fertilizer under equal-N conditions
  • About 45% less nitrate release in corn
  • Tomato yield gains of +39% vs a commercial organic brand and +61% vs urea
  • Cabbage results showing 56–68% lower late-season residual soil nitrate

Benefits

  • Improved nutrient-use efficiency
  • Support for crop productivity goals
  • Better nutrient retention potential
  • Alignment with regenerative and sustainable production goals
Crop and soil health solution
Crop and soil health solution
Crop and soil health solution
Crop and soil health solution

Other Products

Explore Additional Fuel & Food/Feed Value From Organic Waste Streams

In some project settings, nutrient-rich waste streams may support additional downstream value creation beyond fertilizer production, including liquid fuels and other product pathways, such as nutraceuticals and animal feed.

The Challenge

Many waste-to-value systems capture only part of the broader product potential available in manure, digestate, and other biological or nutrient-rich feedstocks.

GSR Solution

GSR has also pursued pathways related to liquid fuels and other higher-value product opportunities where appropriate, expanding the potential uses of recovered nutrients and biological resources.

Benefits

  • broader waste-to-value potential
  • additional product and commercialization opportunities
  • improved value capture from biological resources
  • expanded long-term innovation potential
Liquid fuel solution
Liquid fuel solution
Food and feed solution
Food and feed solution