At least to me, the fact that they're looking for an area to site a test plant means this stuff isn't new.
If they are in Georgia the PERFECT facility already exist sitting idle. In Cordele Georgia there is a 55 million dollar recycling plant. It was designed to separate the organic from the plastics, metals, etc. Technically it worked fairly well but business wise and goober small town georgia government management doomed it.
Their idea was to turn the organics into compost. That worked too but not a huge market for compost. Take that raw organics and feed to this process and it would be the perfect marriage.