Fact Sheet: A 400 Tonne per Day Plasco Facility
The Proposed Facility
150,000 tonnes of residual waste processed per year (400 tonnes-per-day)
21 MW of net electricity delivered to B.C. Hydro within the Lower Mainland distribution grid
A commercial Plasco Energy Group Inc. facility with the world’s best environmental performance and highest energy recovery from waste conversion
A solution that enables waste to be managed within the Metro Vancouver region
What is the Cost to the Region?
No capital expenditures
No operating expenditures
Tipping fee comparable to that of landfill
What is the Environmental Performance?
No emissions from the conversion of garbage to synthetic fuel gas, construction aggregate, salt, sulphur and clean water
Exhaust emissions from engines running on the Plasco synthetic fuel gas are below the most stringent limits anywhere in the world and are disclosed publicly on a website
Heavy metals in the waste stream are recovered and sent for safe disposal (less than 2 kg for each tonne of waste processed)
Net decrease in air pollutants such as NOx as a result of reduced trucking, displacement of natural gas power, and reduced emissions from landfill.
