A Global Movement Begins with Twin Labs
Jakarta and Hawaii. Not just locations—synchronized engines of innovation.
The Sonata Foundation is building two pioneering labs: one grounded in Jakarta's industrial urgency, the other refined in Hawaii's scientific calm. Together, they form the world's first nonprofit-led, dual-lab model for environmental innovation—blending industrial testing, next-generation diagnostics, and AI-powered collaboration.
One lab pushes boundaries. One lab polishes breakthroughs. Together, they accelerate the future.
What We're Solving
Waste into Energy
We're not waiting for the world to clean itself up. We're building the science, the system, and the next generation of talent to do it.
Turning Waste into Clean Fuel
What others discard, we transform.
The twin labs will tackle the world's dirtiest, most overlooked waste streams. We are engineering a portfolio of next-generation fuels using materials no one has solved for.
Coal Fines.
Too fine to sell, to dirty to use cleanly.
Millions of tons of valuable carbon are trapped in coal dust, screenings and mine tailings — too fine to sell, too dirty to use cleanly. We're blending those with advanced binding agents and emission-optimized additives to create high-energy briquettes that burn longer, cleaner, and safer.
Our goal: displace traditional coal with a smarter, cleaner fuel that turns mining waste into carbon-negative product.
Toxic Plastic.
Burned. Buried. Poisoning.
In cities across Southeast Asia and beyond, plastic isn't recycled. It's burned in fields. Buried in villages. Poisoning children.
Our goal: repurpose and transform plastic into clean fuel.
Waste.
Problem Nobody Wants to Touch.
Across Southeast Asia and the Pacific, wastewater treatment plants leave behind a toxic byproduct known as waste cake — a sludge-like substance dumped in landfills, left to rot in open air, or burned without filtration. It stinks, spreads disease, and emits dangerous pollutants.
Our goal: turn that toxic sludge into next-generation clean fuel.