The Drysdale Landfill Biogas Renewable Energy Facility (REF) is located at the Drysdale landfill which is the principal landfill for Geelong. The landfiill site takes in approximately 90,000 tonnes of mixed solid waste per annum. The REF collects the biogas generated from the contaminated organic portion of the waste stream and uses it to generate baseload, renewable electricity. The facility generates 8500MW’s of renewable energy per year, which is enough to power over 1,500 homes.
Starting mid-2022, the East Rockingham WtEs will convert 300,000 tonnes per year of residual waste from non-recyclable materials in the Perth metropolitan area to deliver baseload electricity, recycle aggregate and metals ,and divert 96% residual waste from landfill.
Residual municipal & industrial & demolition waste
Australian Paper (AP) is proposing to develop a 225 megawatt thermal Energy from Waste (EfW) plant adjacent to the existing AP Maryvale Pulp and Paper Mill site on land owned by AP in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria. The aim of the proposed $600m EfW plant is to allow AP to attain a sustainable, long-term and stable alternative base load energy source to provide steam and electricity for the existing Maryvale Mill, which has been manufacturing paper since 1938. For this 225MWth EfW plant the operating waste feed requirement is estimated to be 650,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of non-hazardous residual waste which would otherwise be sent to landfill. It is proposed to use Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) for approximately 80% of the fuel input to the EfW plant. MSW is waste from household rubbish collections (not recyclable collections). Some Commercial and Industrial (C&I) waste (approx. 20% of fuel input) would also be used, with the non-hazardous C&I waste being similar to MSW, but sourced mostly from manufacturing facilities, shopping centres and office buildings.
