Processing waste through our conversion process reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in two ways. First, it eliminates the methane that would form if the waste were landfilled - this is significant since methane has a global warming potential of 23 times that of CO2. For typical municipal solid waste, the GHG reduction due to methane elimination is about 1.5 tonnes CO2e per tonne of waste processed by our process when compared to landfill with no methane capture.
Secondly, power generated from our process displaces power from other sources, such as coal. From a tonne of waste our process produces 1.2 MWh of power. In doing so 0.6 tonnes CO2e of GHG’s are released. A coal-fired generation station releases 1.2 tonnes CO2e of GHG’s while producing the same amount of power. Therefore, displacing 1.2 MWh of coal-fired power generation with PlascoEnergy’s clean power reduces GHG emissions by about 0.6 tonnes of CO2e.
GHG emission reductions from displacement of methane and coalfired power generation result in a combined total CO2e reductions of 2.1 tonnes per tonne of waste processed by our system.
