Waste plant seeks expert advice on finding buyers for "sludge"

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Waste plant seeks expert advice on finding buyers for "sludge"

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Experts are expected on the island next week to help solve the problem of managing the refuse-derived fuel (RDF) produced by the Pentakomo waste treatment plant which is currently being buried as no buyer has stepped in....

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My comment on the original article in CM:
Whose brilliant idea was it to build a wet sludge plant, in the first place? Of course, no one wants the stuff; it has practically no value as a fuel and requires more energy to dry it than the energy it can produce. The only reasonable solution to waste is the WtE (waste-to-energy) plant, as is current with over 1,000 such plants in many countries (e.g., rich like Switzerland and poor like Indonesia). Why was "such a unit had already been rejected" when proposed over 12 years ago, and why was that mistake not rectified since? Two such units could provide at least 9% of our energy needs without using fossil fuel sources.
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They use Digesters in the UK, and then use it as fertiliser

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There were 40 energy-from-waste facilities in the UK in 2017, up from 26 in 2014. Together they have a combined operational capacity of handling 12m tonnes of waste a year, a figure that experts expect will rise to nearly 16m by 2022.

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