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Cycle (Brand)
Cycle is a brand of reNEW Technologies, a general acetic acid based bathroom surface cleaner and toilet cleaner made from 90% recycled raw materials without the addition of water from biomass obtained from wastewater.The world's first recycled cleaner. The detergent was preceded by ten years of research and development in Budapest. The product is sold in a recycled plastic bottle, labeled with cellulose-based, compostable paper and with waterproof ink.

Manufacturing Technology
Organic waste is converted into biomass in a digester (biological reactor) by bacteria. This process has long been used for the production of biogas, the intermediate formation of which is the acid. Organic waste is processed by a type of bacterium, and acid is formed. The acid is utilized by another bacterial culture that produces methane. The developers of Cycle have developed a process to extract fatty acids containing acetic acid before it reaches the methane-producing bacteria. 40% of the biomass is utilized to produce acetic acid, the rest becoming biogas. The solids content of the fermented sludge is removed by membrane separation and the acetic acid on which the product is based is obtained from the permeate by vacuum distillation. The detergent contains only recycled water from biomass. Only natural additives, including essential oils and blowing agents, are added to the product, they do not interfere with the cleaning effect and are included in the product due to customer expectations and habits. The manufacturer claims that the product has a cleaning power equal to or better than conventionally available cleaning agents.