From the reduction or elimination of the need for landfills to the production of renewable forms of energy from recyclable waste, the Thermoselect process offers substantial environmental and economic benefits.
Environmental Benefits
- 100% of the waste becomes useful recycled products
- No ash is generated – Reduces the uses of landfills
- Comprehensive solution – processes all forms of waste
- Closed loop process – has no process water discharges
- When using syngas to generate electricity, air emissions are 90% to 95% lower than permitted by the US EPA
- Does not use incineration technology
- Can transform the renewable energy in waste into electricity thereby reducing the use of fossil fuels to generate the same amount of electricity while improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Can use the synthesis gas generated in the process to manufacture clean diesel, which reduces emissions from trucks and buses by more than 40%
- Requires only 14 acres of land to build a facility to process 500,000 tons of waste per year
- Avoids using 400 acres to landfill the same quantity of waste
- Facilities can be built in 20 to 24 months
Economic Benefits
- IWT offers to privately finance facilities. There is no government investment or financial risk
- Cost competitive with other forms of modern thermal waste disposal technologies
- Hundreds of jobs are created during the construction of each facility
- Well paying operation and maintenance jobs are created for the life of each facility
- Significant investment is made in the surrounding community during
construction and operation of each facility
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