TyraTech's new technology separates, composts and purifies livestock waste on-site. Once separated from the solids, the liquids can easily be piped or transported onto fields as fertilizer. Meanwhile, the solids go through a purification process that turns the product into an odorless medium similar to peat moss that can work as a fertilizer or as inexpensive bedding for cows. Rather than using sand as bedding, which just gets rinsed away every time the cows are washed before milking, this costs about the same as sand and is a recycled product.

While the process doesn't completely eliminate the most harmful greenhouse gas associated with dairy farming – methane gas – it does significantly reduce its emissions. And it also reduces the toxic effluent and water pollution risks associated with dairy farm waste. Anything to cut the nasty pollution and emissions from livestock and dairy farms is always a good step.

Two farms in Indiana and Ohio just started using the TyraTech system.