New website connects more than two decades of work in textile-waste recovery, nanocellulose, wastewater resource recovery, and next-generation AI infrastructure
USA — October 2026 — Inventor, practical scientist, entrepreneur, and industrial system builder Dr. Refael Aharon has launched a new website bringing together more than two decades of work in waste recovery, advanced materials, industrial machinery, environmental technology, and circular infrastructure.
The platform introduces Aharon’s broader engineering philosophy: Waste Mining.
Instead of treating difficult waste streams only as disposal liabilities, Waste Mining treats them as potential sources of materials, water, energy, data, and industrial value.
From Waste Management to Waste Mining
Waste Mining asks:
What valuable resource can be recovered from the waste stream, and what the hardware looks like? What are the barriers, the bottle necks and how to make it happen in real life and real; scale
Dr. Aharon said. “I build customized turn key systems around the actual waste stream, not simply off-the-shelf machines and create measurable economic value.”
For textiles, that means moving beyond sustainability claims toward measurable EPR and environmental-compliance infrastructure:
Identification → contamination screening (PFAS and Microplastics) → Smart Sorting → traceability → pretreatment → cellulose/material recovery.
Dr. Aharon systems have been built and operated at pilot and industrial scale, textile and wastewater (sewage) samples have been processed and analyzed, material composition determined, PFAS identified, cleaning, warning and mitigation approaches developed, and cellulose, microcellulose, and nanocellulose products produced and tested.
Micro and Nanocellulose are a central part of that strategy. This expensive and valuable material can offer exceptional strength-to-weight performance and has potential applications across composites, construction materials, coatings, plastics, packaging, advanced manufacturing, and other industries. Aharon’s long-term objective is to reduce the cost of producing nanocellulose sufficiently for it to become a broadly available industrial material rather than a specialty product.
Harvest Nano: Textile Waste Is a Material Resource
Harvest Nano focuses on post-consumer and pre-consumer textile waste through Smart Sorting, contamination-aware processing, cellulose recovery, and micro/nanocellulose production.
Used textiles are particularly difficult because the feedstock may contain cotton, polyester, elastane, nylon, dyes, coatings, grease, detergents, microplastic erosion, durable finishes, PFAS, microplastics, contamination from use, and unknown chemical histories.
For PFAS and microplastics, responsible recycling therefore begins before material recovery:
Warning signs – Collection → identification → contamination assessment → sorting → pretreatment and washes→ controlled recovery → traceable output.
Waste2Nano: Connecting Wastewater and AI Infrastructure
The second major platform, Waste2Nano, extends Waste Mining into wastewater treatment and next-generation computing infrastructure.
SI/AI and high-performance computing are creating enormous demand for electricity, cooling, and water. Waste2Nano proposes integrating data centers with existing wastewater-treatment infrastructure so that raw sewage or treated, non-potable wastewater—not drinking water—can become part of the cooling-resource system.
The concept uses wastewater as a cooling resource for closed-loop or engineered data-center cooling systems, while simultaneously capturing and reusing the waste heat generated by computing hardware.
Instead of viewing a wastewater-treatment plant, a data center, and municipal waste streams as separate infrastructure, Waste2Nano treats them as one connected resource system.
“The opportunity is not simply to cool AI,” Aharon said. “It is to capture the heat, use non-drinking water intelligently, recover valuable material from waste, clean PFAS and microplastics and design the entire infrastructure as one circular system. In this way AI/SI growth can contribute to humans water infrastrctures which is a real big problem to many”.
The new platform also presents his patent portfolio, publications, engineering history, and book, The Waste Mining Revolution.
Aharon and Harvest Nano are also clarifying that Harvest Nano and Waste2Nano technology, IP, know-how, data, work product, project materials, company name, and Dr. Aharon’s name may be used only with express authorization from the appropriate rights holder. The technology or reputation to be used for greenwashing or ‘greenwishing’ environmental claims and ambitions unsupported by real operational performance.
“We are looking for serious partners who want to know what happens to their waste and are prepared to measure it, clean it, process it, recover value from it, and document the result.” Aharon said.
Aharon is seeking collaboration with companies, municipalities, manufacturers, recyclers, wastewater operators, data-center developers, investors, researchers, and infrastructure partners.
We can provide samples for feasibility and adjust the system to your specific waste and regulation issues.
Support for this life mission: through investment, technical collaboration, project development, strategic partnerships, presentations, workshops, conferences or introductions to organizations genuinely interested in solving waste and infrastructure problems is welcomed.
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Dr. Refael Aharon
Harvest Nano Inc.
