There are many ways of extracting energy from waste. Some of them are new. All have been researched, tried and tested, some for thousands of years!

The “energy” that we are talking about is heat and electrical energy. It comes from the biogas or syngas that we are able to generate.

The “waste” we are talking about is  Carbon-based, organic waste. Anything that has lived and died, contains “energy”. We can’t work with metals or glass.

We live by the words “one man’s waste is another man’s treasure”. We absolutely don’t mean that garbage is waste, or forest residues are waste, or manure is waste, or mortalities are waste, or even offal is waste. It all has value. We look at these "wastes" as opportunities, and in our opinion, the waste producer should be the first person on the list to convert it to an opportunity.

The energy that is in waste has been there since it was grown, or added to it as it was manufactured or processed. So getting the energy out of the waste is where the magic lies. In most cases it’s a conversion process. We need to determine the best process for the mix of feedstocks. We need to convert it from just sitting there, into gas, steam, heat, electricity, or another valuable byproduct.