Animal agriculture produces five to ten times more nutrient waste than human systems. This waste drives health issues, air-quality problems, and lost performance. Managing these nutrients has long been an expensive burden.
We apply accelerated natural processes to capture, convert, and recover nutrients—improving productivity, reducing costs, and enabling water reuse on farms. Our systems help animal agriculture unlock the value inside its largest waste streams.
Pancopia develops technologies that support Earth’s essential environmental cycles: water, nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus — each at different stages of research and deployment. Our work began in space, and today it helps agriculture turn waste into value in the places where impact matters most.
Our first ready-to-deploy system, FreshFlush reduces airborne ammonia in swine barns, improving air quality, supporting pig health, and boosting performance. By stabilizing nitrogen and improving water reuse, FreshFlush helps farms cut mortality, reduce odor, and lower operating costs.
Our technology currently in research polishes recycled barn water for non-potable reuse, reducing the need for freshwater while improving barn efficiency. Recycled water can support flushing, spray-down, and misting. Drinking-water reuse is a long-term goal supported by NASA-backed research.
Our phosphorus-removal process currently in research captures excess phosphorus from recirculating aquaculture systems, improving water stability and operational efficiency. Recovered phosphorus can be reused as fertilizer, turning a costly byproduct into a useful resource.
Pancopia’s technology began with NASA’s life-support systems for water and nutrient recycling.
But there are only so many toilets in space. Our biggest environmental opportunity is here on Earth, where our same technologies now help animal agriculture recover resources profitably — in a sector that produces five to ten times more nutrient waste than human systems.
