Changing the Way That America Looks at Waste

 

Wheat Ridge, CO /PRNewswire/ - Global NES, Inc. is redefining waste operations for America's landfills. They have developed a unique processing system that takes MSW (Municipal Solid Waste) through a series of steps that transforms waste matter into a viable energy-producing by-product.

This revolutionary process begins with a drying procedure that reduces the water content from the 50 - 60% range, down to 15 - 20%. Next, the MSW is ground into smaller pieces before entering a cubing chamber that uses different sized and shaped dies to produce various combustible products. The last component of this complete process is either selling the by-product or using it to produce energy. Every municipal need is different. The final decision of what is best can be determined only upon review of each municipality's unique situation.

Many U.S. landfills have or will reach capacity in the very near future. Municipalities are struggling with the few expensive options available to them. Until now, the only viable choices were to find land to develop a new landfill or to ship refuse to another location for processing. These are not solutions to the problem, merely a temporary fix to a mounting issue.

Landfill statistics:

• The U.S. has 3,091 active landfills
• Over 10,000 old municipal landfills
• Past - Most towns had their own "dumps"
• Past - Many businesses & factories had their own sites
• No idea how many current private dump sites exist either operating legally or illegally

Biomass/Bioenergy/Biopower, have multiple choices for fuels sources such as:

• Wood (largest biomass resource)
• Food crops
• Grassy and woody plants
• Residues from agriculture or forestry
• Oil-rich algae
• Methane fumes from landfills
• Organic components of municipal and industrial wastes

With biomass, the CD (carbon dioxide) release is the same as burning fossil fuels, but with other notable and beneficial differences: Fossil fuels release CD captured by photosynthesis millions of years ago, an essentially "new" greenhouse gas. Biomass releases CD that is balanced by the CD captured in its own growth (depending how much energy was used to grow, harvest, and process the fuel). Biomass energy supports U.S. agricultural and forest-product industries.

Biomass is the largest source of renewable energy in the world other than hydroelectricity. Unlike solar or wind, biopower is a baseload energy source that is unending and non-reliant upon natural resources of sun or wind. Even if the municipality chooses not to produce energy with the by-product, there are many positive benefits associated with the Global NES MSW processing system. The pure mass and weight of the MSW is reduced by 33%. That means one-third less waste deposited into current landfills or shipping mass (size and weight) to other landfills is reduced by the same amount. All good economic and environmental reasons for processing landfill waste through the Global NES system.

The costs of biomass fuel production vary considerably:

• Lowest end - landfills (free or negative net cost)
• High end - facilities that must collect, transport and process resource

Biomass Landfill Use Advantages:

• More competitive than solar and wind
• Proven segmented technologies
• Reduction in continued landfill waste by 60%
• Reduction in landfill waste if converted to biopower 90%+
• Reduction in MSW transport costs
• Baseload power source (Never ending, Non-reliant)
• Production of electricity by negative cost fuel source
• Generation units are convenient, safe and very efficient
• Abundant incentives
• Location eliminates NIMBY concerns

So, whether municipalities are looking at reducing landfill mass, extending the life of their landfill, reducing costs of transporting waste to other landfills or using MSW to provide energy, Global NES, Inc. has the solution.

Biomass generators are easy to use and maintain with computerized control panels that monitor all the boiler functions on one simple keypad. Most monitoring systems feature a beacon with operation warnings and maintenance indicators.

Outside the profitability...

• For every converted ton of municipal waste, we can save a barrel of oil or not use 551 pounds of coal.
• Every year in the U.S. there is almost 300 million tons of MSW sent to landfills.
• If all landfill waste was converted to energy, our dependence on oil would be reduced by 3-4 percent.

Global NES is a large scale renewable/alternative energy systems integration company headquartered in Colorado, with field representatives throughout the US and abroad. What really sets Global NES apart from the competition is their 360 degree approach and "ONE SOURCE FOR ALL TECHNOLOGIES™" products and services offering. The Global NES approach is a complete turn-key energy solution incorporating energy reduction measures, a choice of technologies, applicable financial options, installation and subsequent system monitoring.

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SOURCE Global NES, Inc.

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