DEEP IMPACT

Reinventing decades-old technology, the founders of Vaulted Deep went underground to fight climate change.

- By CHLOE AIELLO

WASTE WATCHERS Co-founders Omar Abou-Sayed and Julia Reichelstein are sequestering carbon to address climate change.

On a sweltering day in July, a group of business owners and elected officials gathered in Hutchinson, Kansas. Despite the heat, the occasion was festive, complete with ice cream from a local purveyor and a DJ playing Top 40. Julia Reichelstein, the 33-year-old CEO of carbon removal company Vaulted Deep, was celebrating the expansion of her company’s flagship waste management site, which she believes is the future of climate change mitigation.