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What Wastewater Products Can You Actually Buy for Christmas?

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⬇️ IN THIS VIDEO ⬇️
This special episode showcases 17 commercially available products made from recycled wastewater, desalination brine, and industrial water byproducts. From ski resort snow to table salt, beer to bourbon, cosmetics to clothing, these items prove that circular water economy isn't just theory—it's hitting store shelves as legitimate luxury goods and everyday essentials.

🌶️ KEY SPICES 🌶️
🎿 Big Sky Resort now makes artificial snow from recycled village wastewater using Montana's largest zero liquid discharge system
🧂 Desalination brine transforms into gourmet table salts and superfood ingredients instead of marine discharge
🍺 Reused wastewater beer, rainwater whisky, and coffee-waste vodka prove beverage innovation is real
👖 Jeans from Everlane and Triarchy achieve 95-98% water recycling through closed-loop finishing
🧴 L'Oreal's Burgos "waterloop factory" reuses 100% of process water for Kerastase production
🧪 Hungarian startup Cycle ferments sewage sludge into bio-acid cleaners shipped worldwide

🥜 IN A NUTSHELL 🥜
Can you really eat products from desalination waste? Aqualia's Alma de Mar table salts and UAE-grown Salicornia demonstrate that brine valorization creates food-safe, even gourmet products through controlled crystallization and aquaponic farming.

How are beverage companies using wastewater? H2O Innovation, Epic Cleantec, and Singapore's NEWBrew produce beers from purified wastewater, while Good Vodka upcycles 15 million tons of annual coffee cherry waste and Old Humble proofs whisky with collected Texas rainwater.

What makes water-smart clothing different? Everlane's Saitex partnership recycles 98% of process water, Triarchy replaces chemical bleaching with ozone, and Girlfriend Collective turns plastic bottles into sportswear while capturing microplastics.

Which home products close the water loop? Porcelanosa ceramics operates zero liquid discharge, EnviroCopy paper circulates water 30 times per production cycle, and Vuna's Aurin turns urine into nitrogen fertilizer now scaling across Europe.

⏰ TIME STAMPS ⏰
00:00 17 Wastewater Products
00:17 Big Sky Montana
04:31 Alma de Mar
06:12 Salicornia
07:49 Tasting
09:34 They almost made it...
10:31 H2O Innovation Pale Ale
12:43 Good Vodka
14:24 Old Humble Special Reserve
16:16 Naif Face Scrub
18:27 Kerastase by l'Oreal
20:09 Everlane Jeans
22:29 Triarchy Jeans
23:38 Girlfriend Collective Tank Top
25:07 Himba Fish Cuff
25:32 Innorecycling Water Can
25:59 Aurin by Vuna
27:31 Porcelanosa Tiles
28:56 Sustana Enviro Copy
30:15 Cycle Biocleaners
32:02 Test Results
33:03 An Epic Surprise...