Dial A Dump Industries seeks world’s largest waste to energy plant

Australian waste management firm Dial A Dump Industries is reportedly looking to obtain approval from the Planning Assessment Commission for the “world’s largest” waste to energy facility at NSW’s Eastern Creek industrial estate.

The company told Waste Management World it was confident it will gain permission for the proposed facility, to be located next to its Genesis recycling facility.

“There is not one solution to waste. Genesis is already playing an important role in recycling and re-using Sydney’s building and demolition waste and our sophisticated and environmentally responsible, clean Energy from Waste facility will operate alongside the current operations,” said Dial A Dump Industries’ chief executive, Ian Malouf.

Fairfax Media reported the $700 million facility has received some opposition from the NSW Greens, as well as some surrounding councils, having written to the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils expressing their concern.

The proposal includes the construction and operation of an energy from waste facility, thermal treatment of up to 1 million tonnes of waste per year, a boiler house and an electronically powered feed-stock conveyor from the existing Genesis waste management facility.

“We will use residue building and demolition wastes that would otherwise be landfilled to generate electricity for 200,000 homes across Sydney, providing a secure, long-term supplement to western Sydney’s energy demands,” he said.

The company said the Next Generation facility will be built to the latest European and Australian engineering and environmental standards. This would Include technology that captures any particulate matter and adsorbs heavy metals and dioxins, while cleaning any gases before they reach the atmosphere.

The company noted that this would mean that outputs would be below the limits set out by the New South Wales Environmental Protection Agency and the very strict European directives, and in many cases would not even be detectable. The facility’s pollution controls will be monitored by the EPA 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

“Emissions from the facility will have less impact than a person holding a burning sparkler at a birthday party, emitting less chloride, dust and nitrous oxides,” Mr Malouf said.

“By converting residual waste into power, the facility will prevent the release of 3 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and divert over 1 million tonnes of waste from landfill each year”.

Waste Management World reported the facility will also include an educational centre where the company intends to give tours of the existing and proposed facility’s to educate schools and community groups on the importance of sustainability, recycling and energy from waste technology.

 

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