Throwing Out the Waste, Not the Opportunity

The world generates over 2 billion tons of solid waste every year — a number expected to reach 3.4 billion by 2050. Even the most advanced recycling nations manage less than half their waste. The rest gets transported, buried, or burned. Three Israeli engineers decided there was a better way. In 2017, they founded Zohar CleanTech and developed a containerized gasification system that processes unsorted waste on-site — at factories, shopping centers, municipalities, and airports — converting it into synthetic gas and construction-grade materials. No sorting. No trucking. No landfill. Each system reduces carbon emissions by approximately 2,000 tons per year. The platform is compact and modular, designed to sit where the waste is generated — not at a distant processing facility. After completing successful pilots with global companies across multiple industries, Zohar CleanTech entered Pre-Sales in 2023. The waste management market was valued at $1.3 trillion in 2022 and is projected to grow at 5.4% annually through 2030. Walla Finance profiled the company as part of its coverage of Israeli environmental technology — highlighting a shift from waste as a municipal burden to waste as a local energy asset.