W²E USA® Benefits - Solving Landfill Dilemma

• ​​Opportunity value of land
• Total production processing rates increase significantly 
• Can currently process and remediate existing landfill on a 4:1 ratio 
• Reduction in landfill costs
• Less wear/tear on machinery
• Less maintenance
• Reduction in trailer maintenance
• Increased turnaround time
• Less labor costs via fewer movements to achieve desired payloads (size of bales, not as many trips, etc.)
• Vertical bale face no longer needs to be covered at end of each day eliminating tarp and soil costs 
• Due to stacking, less clean fill needs to be spread
• Reduction in litter fencing

​BENEFITS OF REDUCING AND ELIMINATING CONTAMINATED WASTE

• Profitable, healthier environmental solution
• Eliminate biological weapon in trash
• Can process both existing landfill trash and current delivered trash so that all contamination is encapsulated and confined

• Will then be processed in W²E® and all contamination eliminated without toxins, furans etc. being emitted​
• Cleaner operating environment
• Easier and cleaner to transport​
• Transfer station cleaning of floor no longer necessary​
• Increases capacity in landfill
• Cleaner leachate reduces the risk of clogging pipes, minimizing the movement of debris

WHERE DOES WASTE GO

• ​​​Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill tipping fees in U.S. continue to rise, with fees increasing from 2018 to 2019 by $2.74 per ton or 5.2%
• 256 million tons per year of MSW equals increase of $702,867,540

BREAKDOWN OF MSW 

TIME IS RUNNING OUT

Incineration is NOT the Answer

• Most expensive method of disposal
• Creates pollutants
• Dioxins and Furans are formed
• No Recyclables
• Only 50% of electricity produced vs gasification
• No possibility of valuable by-products
  • Grit 
  • Char
  • Syngas

• Based on data collected by Waste Business Journal, over next five years, total landfill capacity in U.S. is forecast to decrease by more than 15%. This means that by 2021 only 15 years of landfill capacity will remain. However, in some regions it could be only half that.
• In 2015, U.S. generated 389 million tons of MSW with 247 million tons landfilled

LANDFILL CAPACITY

United States at current rates of net landfill capacity changes, by 2021 there will be approximately 15 years of landfill capacity remaining, representing an annual rate of loss of 2.6%. The Northeast region has the greatest annual rate of capacity loss at 5% with the expected remaining capacity in years by 2021 dwindling down to eight. The next most capacity constrained region, the Midwest, is expected to only have about 11 years of capacity by 2021 at expected rates of net capacity loss.

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​​Volume Landfilled Exceeds Capacity Expansion 
In spite of modest air space additions in 2016, annual capacity shortfall (volume landfilled exceeds capacity expansion) developed in 2017. This annual net airspace loss is expected to more than double by 2021, with net capacity loss of over 1 billion tons during that timeframe.

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THE ISSUES ARE GLOBAL

• While U.S. and China are recognized to be world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases, they are not biggest producers of solid waste per capita
• Solid waste refers to household garbage, non-hazardous trash, and litter
• Surprisingly, largest waste producers per household are found in smaller geographic countries like Kuwait and Caribbean Island nations
• Countries around globe continue to generate large amounts of waste as their populations grow and their economies expand
• Amount of waste generated by urban residents in 2016 is estimated to have doubled to 2.64 lbs. per capita per day from 0.64 kilograms per capita per day 10 years ago. On a yearly basis, equates to 2.6 billion tons per year in 2016, versus about 139 million tons per year a decade ago.​

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NON-RECYCLABLE PLASTICS

• Non-Recyclable Plastics are currently landfilled 
• These have a very high BTU value
• Can process and monetize these into energy