Around the world, dozens of incinerators and other thermal processing technologies have been constructed to deal with the problem of municipal solid waste (MSW). With the average human generating between.7 and 1 kg of waste, per day, it is easy to see why waste disposal has become a major expense for municipalities and a major environmental hazard. In the United States, for example, only 75 waste-to-energy facilities exist and while they deal with an impressive 34 million tons of waste, annually, that represents only 13% of the total MSW generated in the US. That means the balance is going into landfills where the decomposing organic fraction of the waste stream becomes the single largest non-transportation source of greenhouse gases (GHG’s). Outside of some European countries and Japan, that same situation exists, worldwide. There is a pressing need for environmentally progressive waste management solutions in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, as well as on virtually all island nations.

What is ironic about this situation is that emissions from landfills are the largest non-transportation source of greenhouse gas emissions, in most countries, at a time when climate change is seen as one of the greatest threats facing our future. The increasing cost of raw materials has made the metal, glass, plastic and other commodities in the waste stream more valuable than ever before. Clearly, there is a huge demand for sophisticated, environmentally-progressive, waste recycling and conversion facilities. This is particularly true in those jurisdictions who derive much or all of their electricity from fossil-fuels, as electricity generated from modern WtE facilities can actually cost less than power produced from oil.

Cinergex aims to develop clean, efficient and cutting-edge waste recovery facilities, throughout the developing world. Our “Resource Recovery Centres” are designed with the most advanced recycling technologies as the “front-end” to a biomass-energy “back end” in a unique design that, we believe, represents the epitome of waste re-utilization. Our goal is to ensure that the environmental benefits, to a host community, are just as significant as the economic benefits.

Cinergex represents a consortium of power generation, materials recovery, finance, engineering and urban planning experts who bring their collective skills to the solution of the waste disposal problems facing large and small communities in the Caribbean, Central America, Africa and Asia. We welcome the opportunity to show you how a CRRC could be the solution to your waste disposal and electricity generation challenges.