Waste to energy technology is coming down in price and the price of energy is going up. Using municipal waste to generate energy is a concept that has arrived with the push of many state governments toward using renewable energy sources. Ceres Associates has partnered with a firm that has a pyrolysis technology that reduces municipal waste volume by over 90 percent, and electricity is produced out the back end.
If you read this blog, you know about the e-waste destruction technology that we represent. What is even more interesting is the same technology can be converted to recycle tires in the most efficient way possible. Thirty percent of a tire (by weight) is petroleum. This technology recovers all of the petroleum in the tire, which is more or less equivalent to bunker fuel. The technology also recovers the metals in the tires. The rest of the material is gasified and the gasses are destroyed. There is very little residual waste material. A 300 ton per day plant will be operational in the US by the end of the year. Waste tires are a problem all over the world. This technology can solve that problem, while generating a significant profit for the owner.
Additional technologies we are looking at will take the particulates out of the smoke released by fire places, greatly reducing air pollution in colder locales. There is a new foam that has been produced that will greatly aide the ease of mitigating asbestos in building materials and ships. It is all very exciting to know that we can have an impact on reducing human impact on the climate.
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