perth super mrf
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Perth Super MRFPerth Super MRF The First Year, Continuous
Improvement and a Sustainable Future
Ed Hood Head of Engineering and Compliance
Overview
About Cleanaway
Why is Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in WA so important to Cleanaway
What is the Perth Super MRF Video
Textile Pilot Program
Current Challenges and Lessons Learned
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Cleanaway is Australia’s leading total waste management services company
4,000+ Employees
3,500+ Vehicles
and processed
for processing
~230,000 tonnes Paper and cardboard recycled
~10,000 tonnes Plastic packaging recycled
~13,000 tonnes Steel recycled
90+ Licensed infrastructure assets
Largest solid waste services fleet and widest network across Australia
Over 120,000 customers ranging from local small business to large national corporates across all industries
Servicing over 90 Councils and 2 million residences per week
Growing network of resource recovery facilities across Australia
Landfill assets located in every mainland state of Australia
Growing network of transfer stations across Australia
Gas generated from landfills used to produce over 90 million kWh of renewable energy
Largest collector and processor of waste liquids in Australia
Largest hydrocarbon recycler in Australia
Largest provider of a wide range of environmentally focussed industrial services in Australia
Why a MRF in WA is so important to Cleanaway.
• Cleanaway is committed to make a sustainable future possible for Australia.
• Our ‘Footprint 2025’ on infrastructure will deliver value & sustainable solutions for all of our customers, communities and shareholders across the Country.
• The MRF in WA has been the first major step for us on this journey and enables us to;
– Provide greater opportunities for landfill diversion
Put the Customer & Employees at the front of our decision making for the future.
Leverage our local and national expertise as One Company.
Reset the bar on delivering ‘Best in Class’ facilities across Australia.
5
The Project Brief - What is the Perth ‘Super’ MRF
A new standard of excellence for ‘resource recovery’ infrastructure in Australia with the delivery of a
‘state of the art’ highly automated, recycling facility.
Improve the customer experience
Increase Safety performance throughout.
Improve the workplace environment for all employees, customers and site visitors.
Capable of processing 200,000 to 250,000 tonnes commingled recyclables (residential & commercial)
per annum.
Recovers eight different saleable commodities
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First Year Results
Processed 130,000 tonnes - 25% more than anticipated! Recovery Rates exceeded an average of 97% Purity Rates exceeded an average of 96%
Material Recycled 65,000 tonnes of paper and cardboard 7,000 tonnes of mixed plastics 1000 tonnes of aluminium 36,000 tonnes of glass diverted from landfill and
recycled into road base
Textile Recovery Partnership with Good Sammy’s One week trial Initiated within first three months of Plant operation
Textiles were collected at the Pre-Sort line for ½ shift per day
Each sorter collected ½ cubic meter of textiles each day
Textiles were to be washed and developed into rags
Glass contamination
12
Next Steps Initiating next phase of program within next two months Glass contamination to be less – stockpile management
One Key Success Glass processing line has been a significant win
25 to 30% of incoming material is glass
this is all recovered, processed, and used in road base and DIVERTED FROM LANDFILL
Only 0.5% of glass in residue to landfill
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Maintenance, infeed process, leadership and training
Requirements understood up front– Waste Composition / Volumes / Output / Customers
Had to adapt to changes – contamination rates, flow of material, commodity sales
Landscape of waste profile is changing
Closed Door Baling operation and careful management of flammable canisters Added extra sorting station just for flammable canisters
Less news print Mix of Cardboard, mixed paper and Old newspapers will require realignment of sorting system
Increased amount of flattened containers contaminate paper line
Not much Bagged material - Bag breaker not being utilized
14
Current Challenges
Changing landscape of Commodity sales with China’s ‘National Sword Policy’
Dust Management
Increasing Community and customer education to reduce incoming contamination rates
Certainty around technological investment – where do we invest next?
15
Some Next Steps Start 2nd pilot program for textile recovery – expect less glass contamination with ‘fluffier’
incoming material
Installation of a bottle perforator
– Increase bottle recovery through optic sorters- – remove issue of liquid in bottles
Realignment of sorter lines for news print and mixed paper
– Increase grade of mixed paper and news print
Realignment of optic sorter for fiber to waste line from container
– recover 1-2% more fiber
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2014 2018
• Increased customs inspections on all imported solid waste to improve quality
• Decline in commodity prices during period
• Feb 17 - One year Government program to reduce importation of foreign waste
• Jul 17 – Ban on recovered unsorted paper products and post consumer plastics
• Nov 17 - Contamination threshold reduced from 1.5% to 0.5%
MRF operational impacts
• Increased plant operation time
regimes
Alternate markets require:
• Sustainability of long term supply
• New market credit risk
• Increased product rejections in Australia and upon receipt by buyer
• Inability to find commercially viable long term markets
• Increased waste to landfill and impending waste levy impact
• Loss of national trading license
• Storage capacity constraints and associated costs
• Fire and insurance risks with storage
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The Future
• Government support packages
• Community education partnerships
• Improved collections compliance regimes
• CRS impact undetermined – further yield reduction
• Australia need to create sustainable internal demand for re-use
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• Forward Looking Infra Red (FLIR) stockpile monitoring
• Not new; technology now widely adopted across many industries (incl waste)
• Other facilities in Australia already incorporate this
• Detects “precursors to fire” at the incipient stage – before smoke develops
• Enables earlier intervention
(incl Transfer Stations in Sydney and Melbourne)
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Image Source: www.flir.com www.catphones.com
Infa red stockpile monitoring for better management of the material and avoid unwanted incidents and impacts that affect Cwy employees the assets and the local environment
Ed Hood Head of Engineering and Compliance
Overview
About Cleanaway
Why is Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in WA so important to Cleanaway
What is the Perth Super MRF Video
Textile Pilot Program
Current Challenges and Lessons Learned
2
Cleanaway is Australia’s leading total waste management services company
4,000+ Employees
3,500+ Vehicles
and processed
for processing
~230,000 tonnes Paper and cardboard recycled
~10,000 tonnes Plastic packaging recycled
~13,000 tonnes Steel recycled
90+ Licensed infrastructure assets
Largest solid waste services fleet and widest network across Australia
Over 120,000 customers ranging from local small business to large national corporates across all industries
Servicing over 90 Councils and 2 million residences per week
Growing network of resource recovery facilities across Australia
Landfill assets located in every mainland state of Australia
Growing network of transfer stations across Australia
Gas generated from landfills used to produce over 90 million kWh of renewable energy
Largest collector and processor of waste liquids in Australia
Largest hydrocarbon recycler in Australia
Largest provider of a wide range of environmentally focussed industrial services in Australia
Why a MRF in WA is so important to Cleanaway.
• Cleanaway is committed to make a sustainable future possible for Australia.
• Our ‘Footprint 2025’ on infrastructure will deliver value & sustainable solutions for all of our customers, communities and shareholders across the Country.
• The MRF in WA has been the first major step for us on this journey and enables us to;
– Provide greater opportunities for landfill diversion
Put the Customer & Employees at the front of our decision making for the future.
Leverage our local and national expertise as One Company.
Reset the bar on delivering ‘Best in Class’ facilities across Australia.
5
The Project Brief - What is the Perth ‘Super’ MRF
A new standard of excellence for ‘resource recovery’ infrastructure in Australia with the delivery of a
‘state of the art’ highly automated, recycling facility.
Improve the customer experience
Increase Safety performance throughout.
Improve the workplace environment for all employees, customers and site visitors.
Capable of processing 200,000 to 250,000 tonnes commingled recyclables (residential & commercial)
per annum.
Recovers eight different saleable commodities
6
| Confidential7
| Confidential8
| Confidential9
10
11
First Year Results
Processed 130,000 tonnes - 25% more than anticipated! Recovery Rates exceeded an average of 97% Purity Rates exceeded an average of 96%
Material Recycled 65,000 tonnes of paper and cardboard 7,000 tonnes of mixed plastics 1000 tonnes of aluminium 36,000 tonnes of glass diverted from landfill and
recycled into road base
Textile Recovery Partnership with Good Sammy’s One week trial Initiated within first three months of Plant operation
Textiles were collected at the Pre-Sort line for ½ shift per day
Each sorter collected ½ cubic meter of textiles each day
Textiles were to be washed and developed into rags
Glass contamination
12
Next Steps Initiating next phase of program within next two months Glass contamination to be less – stockpile management
One Key Success Glass processing line has been a significant win
25 to 30% of incoming material is glass
this is all recovered, processed, and used in road base and DIVERTED FROM LANDFILL
Only 0.5% of glass in residue to landfill
| Confidential13
Maintenance, infeed process, leadership and training
Requirements understood up front– Waste Composition / Volumes / Output / Customers
Had to adapt to changes – contamination rates, flow of material, commodity sales
Landscape of waste profile is changing
Closed Door Baling operation and careful management of flammable canisters Added extra sorting station just for flammable canisters
Less news print Mix of Cardboard, mixed paper and Old newspapers will require realignment of sorting system
Increased amount of flattened containers contaminate paper line
Not much Bagged material - Bag breaker not being utilized
14
Current Challenges
Changing landscape of Commodity sales with China’s ‘National Sword Policy’
Dust Management
Increasing Community and customer education to reduce incoming contamination rates
Certainty around technological investment – where do we invest next?
15
Some Next Steps Start 2nd pilot program for textile recovery – expect less glass contamination with ‘fluffier’
incoming material
Installation of a bottle perforator
– Increase bottle recovery through optic sorters- – remove issue of liquid in bottles
Realignment of sorter lines for news print and mixed paper
– Increase grade of mixed paper and news print
Realignment of optic sorter for fiber to waste line from container
– recover 1-2% more fiber
17
Appendix
| Confidential18
19
2014 2018
• Increased customs inspections on all imported solid waste to improve quality
• Decline in commodity prices during period
• Feb 17 - One year Government program to reduce importation of foreign waste
• Jul 17 – Ban on recovered unsorted paper products and post consumer plastics
• Nov 17 - Contamination threshold reduced from 1.5% to 0.5%
MRF operational impacts
• Increased plant operation time
regimes
Alternate markets require:
• Sustainability of long term supply
• New market credit risk
• Increased product rejections in Australia and upon receipt by buyer
• Inability to find commercially viable long term markets
• Increased waste to landfill and impending waste levy impact
• Loss of national trading license
• Storage capacity constraints and associated costs
• Fire and insurance risks with storage
Confidential | 22
The Future
• Government support packages
• Community education partnerships
• Improved collections compliance regimes
• CRS impact undetermined – further yield reduction
• Australia need to create sustainable internal demand for re-use
24
• Forward Looking Infra Red (FLIR) stockpile monitoring
• Not new; technology now widely adopted across many industries (incl waste)
• Other facilities in Australia already incorporate this
• Detects “precursors to fire” at the incipient stage – before smoke develops
• Enables earlier intervention
(incl Transfer Stations in Sydney and Melbourne)
25
Image Source: www.flir.com www.catphones.com
Infa red stockpile monitoring for better management of the material and avoid unwanted incidents and impacts that affect Cwy employees the assets and the local environment