Does Houston's 'One Bin for All' include New England?

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Does Houston’s ‘One Bin for All’ include New England?

Resource Recovery’s Untapped

Gold Mine $1 billion in resources gets buried every day • Actual municipal waste flows likely to be 50% higher than reported by EPA (389 Million tons vs. 251 MMT) Recycling levels are stuck: • World-best recycling/composting rates no higher than 60% • Average U.S. rate around 30%

Business as usual has maxed its potential

Business As Usual Has

Despite 40 years of public education consumers are still confused about “recycling”.

FAILED At some point we need to admit that Business As Usual is not working.

BUSINESS AS USUAL

ECOHUB WAY

CONFUSING AND LIMITED CAPABILITY

NEW TECHNOLOGY, NEW CAPABILITY

77% of adults think pizza boxes are recyclable but they are not, because of food contamination.

EcoHub technology allows all cardboard and paper products to be recycled regardless of food contamination.

BUSINESS AS USUAL

• Waste separation technologies have been in place around the world for decades • However it has not been put together in the right way to optimize recovery

ECOHUB WAY EcoHub has found the key: • MaxDiverter • Circular Integration approach

MaxDiverter™ Process Flow Ducting Infeed Conveyor (2 Parallel)

Drum Magnet (2 Parallel)

Pre-Sort Conveyor (2 Parallel)

2” (-) Screen (2 Parallel)

Air Drum Separator (2 Parallel)

Bag Houses

LF

eW ood/ Waste HHW Fe Misc.

OCC OCC OCC

Legend

Air Drum Separators

Ballistic Separator

Trailer Feed Conveyor 3/8” (-) Specialty Fines Screen

OCC Baler

2” (+) to 10” (-) Conveyor

2” (-)

Conveyor to Residue Transfer Trailers

DO Drum Magnet (2 Parallel)

Air

OCC Bales

Transfer Conveyor to Bulk Fe Storage

Air

Baler Feed Conveyor

10”(-) Shredder (2 Parallel)

Air

Metering Drum (2 Parallel)

Walking Floor (2 Parallel)

Vibratory Feeder (2 Parallel) HF Inorganics

QC Conveyors

Eddy Current Separators (2 Parallel)

Air Drum Separators Textiles Air

HF Air

Onsite e-Waste Recovery

Vibratory Feeder

WO

Diverter

Heavies Conveyor

Drum Magnet

WO 2” (-) Dry Organics & Light Fraction Misc.

Eddy Current Separator

Metering Bin Storage

To Bulk Fe Storage

Dry Organics Diverter

Glass Optical Sorter

SS Sorter

OCC HHW Fe NF SS PVC PET HDPE

Cardboard Household Hazardous W aste Ferrous Metal Non-ferrous Metal Stainless Steel Polyvinyl Chloride Polyethylene Terephthalate High Density Polyethylene

QC

Quality Control Station

EOF BS

Engineered Organic Fuel Bulk Storage

Rotary Air Separator

Inline Optical Sorters (2 Parallel, 6 Total)

HDPE

1. All non-presort Fe conveyed to bulk storage outside

NF Bulk Storage

Copper & Brass

Air Knife

2D Paper & Film Plastic Vibratory Feeder

#1-7 Plastics

QC Conveyors

Finished Mixed Fe Transfer Conveyor Note 1

Dosing Bins (10 Parallel) Paper or Plastic Optical Sorters (10 Parallel)

Glass

HDPE Baler (2)

PETE Baler (2)

Dewatering/Drying

#2-7 Plastic Bale Storage

Electricity

3mm (-) Shredder

IC Engine Gas Conditioning Conversion Technology

Metering Bin Wood

FDA Approved Food Packaging

3mm (-) Shredder

Metering Bin Green Waste

JET Plastics Recycling

Plastic Products

IH2 Wood, Textiles, and Plastics, Textiles, Green Waste to Gasoliine Rubber and Diapers

Paper Bunkers

QC

Greenbox Film Plastic Balers

Fe Bulk Storage Note 1

Diverter QC

Biomass Pellets

Metering Bin Mixed Dry Organics

Paper

UBC Baler (2)

Film Plastic Conveyor Diverter

Plastic

QC (2)

ADC to Transfer Trailers

Anaerobic Digesters

Paper

#1-7 Plastics Baler (2)

Final Recovery Stations

Finished Digestate BS

QC Plastic

SS

Wet Organic Transfer Trailer

Wood, Textiles, & Dry Organics

Rubber

Compost

Dry Organics Wet Organics

Notes:

PETE

Residue

DO WO

Finished Mixed NF Transfer Conveyor

Residue & Inorganics Rigid & 3D Plastics

Prepared Wet Organics Green Waste

CNG, LNG, Biodiesel, or Pipline Gas

Red Iron Sorter

Light Fraction Heavy Fraction

Eddy Current Separator

Turbo Separator

Residue

Plastic

EWaste

Rotary Air Separator

Conversion Technology Options

Diverter

Eddy Current Separator

NF

Diverter

Optical Sorter

To Bulk Fe Storage

NF

Vibratory Feeder

To Bulk Fe Storage

Grit Classifier

To Bulk Fe Storage

Drum Magnet

Wood

WO

LF HF

This drawing, including the design, ideas, and details shown hereon is the property of the Organic Energy Corporation, Houston, Texas, and is to be returned upon request. It shall not be used, disclosed to others, or copied in whole or in pert without written permission. - CONFIDENTIAL -

Mixed Paper Balers

System Process Flow Diagram U.S. Patents 8,322,639, 8,393,558, 8,398,0068,632,024, and 8,684,288

Copyright 2014

What Do These Have in Common?

They are both electric vehicles

EcoHub Simplified Process Flow

MaxDiverter ™

Resident buys product

Density separation into four streams

Magnets remove ferrous metals

Resident uses product

Resident discards packaging/remainder of product/obsolete product

Hauler collects refuse (MSW) in One Bin

Hauler delivers MSW to MaxDiverter; deposits on tip floor

Balance of MSW shredded to regularize size

Pre-sort line Large pieces of OCC, e-Waste, Household Hazardous waste removed

Bulky items removed on tip floor

Screening by size and dimensional categories

Eddy current and induction current machines remove non-ferrous metals

Optic sorters separate paper by grade, plastics by resin type, and glass by color

Food and green wastes screened and centrifuged out

All separated material streams baled or stored in bunkers for transfer to on- and offsite off-takers

U.S. Patents 8,322,639, 8,393,558, 8,398,006, 8,632,024, and 8,684,288

27.3% Greenbox takes all paper and cardboard, makes FDA approved food contact packaging

Distributed to restaurants/st ores

13.2% JET Plastic Recycling takes plastics; makes building materials and products

9.7% Green EnviroTech or Greenbox takes rubber, tires, textiles, diapers; makes oil/fuels

14.3% Meridian Bioenergy takes food waste; makes Biogas, and soil amendments

3.9% Glass made into pipe bedding, construction aggregates onsite.

13.4% Green waste into compost or IH2 process yielding drop-in fuels

Distributed to wholesalers/retailers

1.3% E-Waste refurbished on recycled onsite

1.1% Biomass pelletized onsite as renewable fuel

10.6% ADC

4.9% Commodity markets/Offtaker for metals and PETE.

Distributed to manufacturers

OLD TECHNOLOGY

NEW APPLICATION

We Even Recycle Facilities

is an innovative

collaborative of premier organizations working together to reclaim discarded resources.

• ACS Industrial Services

• Green Box

• Organic Energy Corp.

• JET Recycling America • Living Earth Compost

• IBM Smarter Cities • Vecoplan

• Meridian Bioenergy

• Berg Mill Supply

• Green EnviroTech

• United Electronics Recycling

separated are manufactured on-site into: • new products • clean & green energy

Creates approximately 1,000 direct jobs, plus 2,000 indirect/induced jobs

America’s resources stay at home

Big Data meets Big Garbage EcoHub has contractual obligations to meet 75% waste diversion target. – Today’s Challenge: • Collecting data, auditing & tracking targets is a very manual process so it is only done occasionally No warning if there are operations issues that prevent meeting targets

Smarter Waste Management Enables: – real-time tracking of waste diversion SLAs to identify possible operational issues early so they can be addressed and SLA is not in jeopardy. – automated data collection and improved data integrity reducing manual effort 18

BUSINESS AS USUAL

E C O H U B WAY

$60 million/yr to collect and dispose of garbage

$37 million/yr to repurpose discarded resources

EcoHub Houston reduces municipal costs of resource recovery by

40 %

is good for the

economy • Creates nearly 1000 on-site jobs + 2,000 induced jobs • 100% privately-funded • No government subsidies • No new taxes, no new fees • Resources sold back to local market • Creates a new green industry

is good for the

environment • •

Creates a sustainable and near zero waste city Reduces Houston’s greenhouse gas emissions • •

• •

500,000 tons of emissions eliminated Equivalent to taking 200,000 cars off the road

Reduces fuel use and air/noise pollution from trash collection by 30 - 50% All processes and facilities green •

No incineration

is replicable Enough resources are discarded to support up to 7 EcoHubs in Houston… • Over 20,000 jobs created and induced • Over 3 million tons of greenhouse gases eliminated • Hundreds of $ millions in savings for Houston residents and businesses

Toward a Zero Waste Future

THANK YOU!