Customers seeking waste management outcomes will assess PacPyro in conjunction with other advanced waste management technologies including tunnel composters and bio-digesters. 

Organisations and local governments are being driven towards more stringent environmental standards and are seeking alternatives to landfill, landfill bioreactors and incineration.  Incentives are also in place through national carbon reduction schemes to redirect these waste flows in an effort to avoid the production of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.  PacPyro’s technology provides significant resource recovery benefits with many feedstocks, in addition to the potential emissions credit from landfill avoidance.  The technology can also achieve significant volume reduction of problem waste materials (70-90% reduction in material based on wet tonne weight).

Composting has become central to techniques adopted as a way of directing large streams of organic waste away from landfill with windrow composting and tunnel composters, playing a key role.  However falling compost prices and the inability of these technologies to deal with a large fraction of the organic waste stream not suited to composting has led to re-assessment of these technologies.  PacPyro has clear advantages over composting including cases where:

• •   Energy recovery can be used to enhance the economics of the waste management;

• •  Municipal and in some cases corporate carbon liabilities can be offset via improved organics                          management and the production of renewable energy and biochar; and
  

In many circumstances, PacPyro’s technology can complement an existing composting facility as the combination of the two provides the following benefits:

• •  Increases the amount of waste diverted from landfill as PacPyro’s technology can manage oversized and       contaminated materials; and
• • Electrical energy generated by PacPyro can be used to produce the power required for the composting           facility.
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Pacpyro offers an alternative to traditional approaches to managing ‘wet waste’ including industrial sludges and biosolids which incur high management costs relating to bulky transport, land filling charges and land application to otherwise productive land.

The ability to process wet feedstocks (up to 85% moisture), onsite (due to a small footprint) combined with a capability to value add or reduce the volume of waste streams offers a compelling option. Again the technology works well in combination with digester technology by using the output of the digester as a feedstock which can be processed into energy and/or biochar.