Q&A: Photoproduction creates medicine from waste

The Kobe University start-up Photo-on-Demand Chemical Co. Ltd. demonstrated that it can produce methane from sewage to refine it into pharmaceutical raw materials and other useful chemicals. For this, Tsuda Akihiko, the CEO and associate professor at the Graduate School of Science, and his team have developed a "photoproduction" method that produces such chemicals by shining light on methane and chlorine, etc.