 The start-up he works alongside, NUF Filtration, headquartered in Caesarea, buys 10% of Israel's total dialysis filter supply - around 100,000 filters per year - at low cost once they have been used by hospitals. They recycle the part of a kidney dialysis machine that was originally used to filter blood, which would have otherwise been disposed of as single-use medical waste. In what is deemed as 'taking recycling to the extreme', NUF Filtration professionally cleans and sterilises the equipment, then uses it to clean the wastewater of 5000 people and 5000 cows from the local area. "They are the best filter available in the world. After all, they imitate the best filter in the world, which is the kidney,' said NUF Filtration CEO Mino Negrin. 'The equivalent would be treat){kind=link}
The 60-year-old man, who manages his local council’s sewage and wastewater treatment, chose to donate his kidney after he learned about the reality of life on dialysis.
Rony Zigler, 60, donated his kidney to a stranger, after working with a start-up that reuses kidney dialysis machines to recycle sewage water.
Rony, who lives in Israel, manages his local council’s sewage and wastewater treatment. He learned about the reality of life for dialysis patients after he was introduced to the machines as part of his work alongside the startup NUF Filtration.
“I’d thought about donating a kidney for a long time and was trying to understand if it was the right move,” Rony said.
“When I realised that I’d be able to live with one kidney, whilst ensuring someone else won’t need to go through a dialysis procedure, I decided to undergo the operation.