The company uses a portable centrifuge stack to capture specific molecules from land waste. It is more expensive to dispose of orange rinds after you process an orange for juice than it is to acquire the orange from a third party, she said. Orange rinds are very acidic, and disposing of a large mass of rinds can make transporting the waste a logistical nightmare. What impressed me even more about this new technology was that it was originally intended for use in medical therapeutics. Yet during development, she realized the technology could serve an even greater need—transforming supply chain “waste” into profit.