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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!