KiwiNet Awards 2024: Rotorua finalist Cetogenix turns organic waste from ‘crap to cash

Patience is key when you’re trying to shift human behaviour, Trevor Stuthridge says.

Stuthridge is chief executive of waste innovation start-up Cetogenix, which has been nominated alongside 17 other finalists at the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards 2024. Cetogenix is nominated in the PwC breakthrough project category.

Cetogenix, based on the Scion campus in Rotorua, has been recognised for developing Ceto-Boost™ , a product that breaks down organic waste and tranforms it into biomethane, fertiliser and biomaterials by way of hydrothermal oxidation – a process that involves heat and pressure to generate chemical reactions.