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Two thirds of
Municipal Solid Waste is biodegradable
material and many commercial waste streams
can also contain high levels of BioMass. This
carbon-rich biogenic material including food
wastes, paper and cardboard and garden/yard
waste decomposes when landfilled causing
harmful leachate and greenhouse gases such as
methane, which has a 23 times higher global
warming potential than CO2.
The patented Bedminster
BioEnergy Technology includes the highly
efficient Bedminster digester separation
process which enables virtually all
biodegradable waste to be captured as a high
quality homogeneous BioMass. This is then
converted into BioEnergy (or high quality
compost), which leads to the diversion from
landfill of more than 95% of the
biodegradable material input, which in turn
greatly reduces the production of greenhouse
gases.
Furthermore, the uniquely
efficient separation allows metals and inert
materials to be separated for recycling,
leaving a synthetic fraction, which can
either be recycled or turned into fuel,
leaving only a small residue from the input
material.
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