Earth Day 2026 finds the ASCE Plot Points podcast celebrating with a conversation between Xavi Fonoll Almansa, an assistant professor of environmental Engineering at the University of Texas, at Austin, and guest host Khuang Zhu of the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute’s Environmental Health and Water Quality Committee.
In episode 190 of ASCE Plot Points, they discuss resource recovery, future technologies and processes, and Fonoll Almansa’s cutting edge research right now into hydrothermal liquefaction, converting organic waste into biocrude.
Listen to the episode above, and subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts.