Waste Management is currently a costly and environmentally damaging process. Many towns and cities have already undertaken some practical steps to reduce their impact on the environment and to reduce the costs of waste management by recycling wherever possible.

The percentage of waste currently sent to landfill is much higher than the global targets.
The waste that local municipalities have most difficulty in dealing with is the organic material such as food waste, nappies and animal by-products.

Earth Power Group has developed a method to transform this waste into a useable product and is able to turn this waste into a valuable revenue stream.

Facility Objectives -No more Landfill:

Earth Power Group facilities divert waste from landfill and create “green energy” fuels. The objective of an Earth Power facility is to manage Waste Recycling and convert the waste into Fuels & Chemicals. Earth Power will design, build and operate the waste facility on behalf of the local community, ensuring that the facility operates efficiently, meets all regulatory standards, enabling the community to decrease its current Landfill commitments.
The facility will be implemented to:

• Dispose of waste in an environmentally friendly method, revolutionising the way that waste is managed within the region;
• Create electricity, clean transport fuels and chemicals;
• Recognise that value can be derived from all waste;
• Deliver significant environmental benefits to the residents of the region;
• Improve the region’s environmental image by demonstrating to the Regional, National and European Governments and local residents that they are at the forefront of best environmental management practices;
• Demonstrate that there is a different way to manage the waste of a region together with the power of its transport infrastructure.

The combined technologies produce the following benefits:

• No more waste sent to environmentally damaging landfills and open dumpsites;
• All waste is converted into a valuable resource;
• Transport fuels created with almost no sulphur and no tar;
• The fuels created are cheaper than traditional fossil fuels;
• The fuels burn cleaner reducing CO2 emissions and exceed the strict California Clean Air Standards;
• The fuel can be pressurised allowing for additional mileage from the same fuel tank;
• The fuels can be blended with existing fuels to enable no changes to existing engine systems;
• The Gasification system creates no waste or low value fraction;

All the technologies used in the system are mature with many years of practical field applications, precluding the need for extensive testing and market entry delays required by new technologies.

Using the latest thermal transfer technologies, even the waste heat from our systems are used to produce Green Electricity. The system will also provide desalination opportunities, by using sea water as a coolant, generating desalinated water as a by-product, with no energy input. All CO2 produced can be captured by the process, therefore not released into the atmosphere.

The process is adaptable to a variety of waste materials and is designed to be accommodated within an existing building in the city that it serves. This allows for the waste to be managed in the closest proximity to where it was collected and the reduced volumes of sterilised waste pellets are then sent to a central gasification facility for energy creation. As many waste streams can be managed by the processing facilities, economies of scale can be facilitated by managing the municipal, industrial and agricultural wastes in the same manner.

This allows for a regional approach to waste management, providing cost savings to the local governments through a consolidated waste strategy.