Zero Waste & Energy Development Applications
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Zero Waste & Development Applications
New town, city developments together with isolated communities and islands all have waste and power requirements to consider. In many cases waste is an afterthought and ends up being an issue that is taken as far away as possible.
The world initiatives are for recycling projects to make all manner of life changing items and developing technologies for developing all manner of environmentally friendly products.
Waste disposal by means of burying in a landfill is a short-term solution nearly everywhere, and many areas are looking at a zero-waste policy, they are wasteful in transport costs and generates unacceptably high levels of methane, a “greenhouse” gas.
Legislation varies from country to country but there is an irreversible trend to limit the use of landfill sites and, except for obviously inert materials, to phase out their use in the comparatively near future.
We can offer technologies to dispose of the waste problems, look at recovering all the materials in the present landfills and use as fuels, recover the land used as landfill for future use, create long term employment, increase the local people’s standard of living, reduce health issues, help to clean up the local environment to make it safe for the local community, produce useful energy, produce useful by-products for local use, promote growth and help people to a better life
Energy Islands
These can be designed and developed to provide a long-term economic solution to the disposal of municipal, commercial, biomass, wood, tyres, waste oils, agricultural, industrial wastes and sewage, which may be produced in the proximity to the facility.
A project could encompass a state of the are Materials Recovery Facility that will optimise waste segregation and recycling and for all of the general materials and a sewage treatment facility for processing the sludge.
The primary output from all the technologies will be electrical energy with a number of useful materials being recovered such as fertiliser, building materials and fuels from plastics.
Further useful energy that can be recovered can be converted to desalination of refrigeration.
The facility would be designed to meet and exceed all environmental legislation for outputs to water, land and air.
The plants are designed to meet the conditions set out in the European Directive 2000/76/EC on the ‘incineration of waste’ as an alternate to EPA or local legislation. Even though the system is not incineration but a form of oxidation/gasification, the legislation does not differentiate between thermal processes.
The site for the facility should be strategically located to minimise impact of traffic movements and the neighbouring area.
