Garbage in, power out
As reported in the Recorder and Times on January 7, Mississauga-based Neutopia EcoSolutions has asked area municipal politicians to consider a proposal for a waste-to-electricity biorefinery plant in Johnstown.
"There is a minimum amount of waste required to make it viable," Neutopia EcoSolutions CEO Robert Laporte told The Recorder and Times. "For a project of this scope ... we need a co-ordinated effort from all the townships and cities that would be involved. All the communities would benefit."
The R&T reports that the plant would use pyrolysis, a system of baking waste at low temperatures to create a gas used to power turbines, thereby creating energy [sic].
What remains at the end of the pyrolysis process is biochar, a "super-fertilizer" that can be combined with other fertilizers, Laporte explained.
The new biorefinery could include not only household waste, but also agricultural waste such as manure, Laporte told the committee.
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