Waste to Power South Australia
Waste to Power South Australia
Environment
Environment
Landfill Impact
Municipal Solid Waste
Municipal Solid Waste
Pollution from solid waste from urban environments, especially households, has been of increasing concern as we better understand its impact on the environment.
Currently, approximately 2.1 billion metric tons of waste are produced every year on a global basis, and a large proportion ends up going to landfill for disposal. These landfills produce and emit noxious odours and significant quantities of pollutants, such as bacteria, viruses, methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide gases, and sulphides. Leachate produced also contaminates the groundwater if not perfectly contained and often contains heavy metals.
This landfill problem can be avoided with Waste to Energy plants, and with our unique addition of Carbon Capture technologies, we are the frontline in removing greenhouse gas emissions from landfills which equate to 4% of emissions globally.
1168 Landfills in Australia is Far Too Many
1168 Landfills in Australia is Far Too Many
More than 27 million tonnes of Australian waste ends up in landfill sites annually, mostly clustered around our capital cities. This represents about 40% of total waste generation in Australia.
Australian Government data suggest that there are around 1168 landfill sites of varying scale and quality across Australia. Since the 1990s, the number of landfills in Australia may have fallen, but the average capacity has grown significantly.
Waste-to-Energy plants reduce the number and size of landfills, preventing new waste from being disposed of in an ecologically damaging way. This directly reduces air pollution, odour, biodiversity impacts, groundwater pollution, soil infertility, and long-term damage to Australia. This means a healthier and cleaner Australia.
Benefits from Waste to Power South Australia
Waste to Power South Australia is conscious of our real and perceived impacts on the environment as a Waste to Energy facility and take our role seriously as the missing link to the circular economy of waste. Our proposed project far exceeds any policies or directives, directly benefiting the environment in a number of ways while realizing the value of waste.
Ultra Clean Gas Emissions
Ultra Clean Gas Emissions
Flue gas cleaning processes are essential for the environment in any process or industry that emits gases. There are many pollutants in flue gases including fly ashes, heavy metals, organic & plastic compounds, volatile acids, and other harmful gases. Through extensive refinement, the technology we will employ catches and eliminates these pollutants, far exceeding any local or international standards, approaching the lowest practical limits.
We are all responsible for our emissions, and WtP SA is doing its part in eliminating emissions from unrecyclable waste.
Clean Water
Clean Water
Through a series of purification and detoxification steps, WtP SA will transform the liquid content within the waste into clean freshwater rather than forming leachate which damages the environment. This will prevent any damaging effects to our waterways or soil of the plant from wastewater or leachates which otherwise exist in landfills.
Net-Zero and Beyond
Net-Zero and Beyond
WtP SA recognizes that regular Waste to Energy facilities, although reducing significant emissions from landfills, do emit a large quantity of greenhouse gases into the environment through their processes. This is quite appropriately of concern to the community, government, and world as a whole.
WtP SA has adopted a two-part strategy using Carbon Capture; the carbon dioxide is not only captured, but also used to create carbon-negative materials for the construction industry. This realises the value of carbon emissions from waste in the production of valuable products. In this way we are Carbon Neutral and produce carbon-negative products.
Our products are considered carbon-negative because they replace materials which require the release of greenhouses gases to be created.
