Miami Dade Resources

Recovery Facility

Operated By: Montenay

Power Corporation

•The facility is the largest and most comprehensive waste-to-energy facility in the world.

•Processes more than 1.2 million tons of garbage and trash per year.

•The facility adopted operational policies and utilized state-of-the –art technical systems to prevent pollution, reduce resource consumption, conserve energy, and protect air quality.

•The company has received the ISO14001 by the International Organization for Standardization for creating a common worldwide approach to environmental management systems that will lead to the protection of the earth’s environment.

Miami Dade Resource Facility

Resources

●Commercial waste

●Used lumber

●Yard waste

●House waste

●Food, paper, plastic

●Food containers

The Power Plant processes

1,200 tons of trash

3,000 tons of garbage

More than 1.2 million tons of garbage and trash per year.

Amounting to 4,200 tons per day

Annually Waste-to-Energy recovers and recycles more than 60,000 tons of ferrous metals, over 3000 tons of aluminum and 80,000 tons of high grade soil. In addition, 24,000 tons of specialty wastes are diverted from landfills and thermally destroyed.

Waste-to-Energy facilities recover and/or recycle materials from the waste stream that would otherwise be disposed of in landfills. The primary material recovered is ferrous metal.

36%

2%48%

14%

Ferrous metals

Aluminum

High grade soil

Wastes (landfills & thermally destroyed)

Garbage

Trash

Ash residue from the Waste-to-Energy process represents about 10% by volume of the original MSW stream. Ferrous metals are removed from the ash at mass burn facilities. The ash is tested in accordance with strict state

and federal regulations, and is consistently shown to be safe for land disposal and re-use.

Ash is beneficially reused as:

● Landfill roadbed material ● Daily and final landfill cover ● Road aggregate ●Granular base ●Asphalt mix and even in the construction for artificial reefs and cement blocks

Waste-to-Energy Solutions

Recovery: includes metals, soil.

Recycling: includes metals, soil, biomass.

Specialty Waste: out-of-date consumer packaging, off-specification pharmaceuticals and returns, post judicial evidence, manufacturing remnants.

Many countries have built waste-to-energy plants to capture the energy in their trash. There are more than 600 waste-to-energy plants in 35 different countries. The graph shows the top five countries that burn their trash to recover the energy in it

Waste-to-Energy Plants- Responsive to the Environment• New Clean Air Act rules

for municipal waste combustors ensure that waste-to-energy is one of the CLEANEST SOURCES OF POWER IN THE WORLD.

• Due to the Clean Air Act- the plants can actually improve the air quality in the communities where they operate.

• Waste-to-energy technology is a major part of a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.

Continuous Improvement• Waste-to-energy power plants are

constantly improving themselves by regularly auditing themselves.

• As well as reviewing their environmental performance.

• In addition, the waste-to-energy plants strive for cost-effective environmental management by improving operations and also by promoting synergy between each plant.

The Future of America’s Trash Disposal• There are 102 waste-to-energy operating in 31 states

throughout the U.S.• These plants burn about 14% of the trash generated nationwide

or about 97,000 tons each day.• They generate more than 2,800 megawatts of electricity to meet

the power needs of nearly 2.5 million homes.• They serve the disposal needs of more than 37 million people.• Waste-to-energy plants represent a national capital investment

of more than $10 billion.• A recent survey conducted in 70 cities nationwide and published

in Solid Waste and Power Industry Sourcebook indicates that almost three-quarters of the Americans polled believe waste-to-energy plants are vital components for the nation’s environmental and economic future. Respondents also believe that waste-to-energy programs mean.

Observation:

Waste-to-Energy Plants like the Montenay Power Group in Doral are more environment friendly than traditional MSW landfills and other types of waste management companies. Everything that is emitted(gas-wise) from this plant is clean. More Than 80% of the garbage/trash is brought into the plant gets recycled.

Hypothesis:

If waste prevention and recycling is being preferable to energy recovery and disposals, then waste-to-energy plants like the Montenay Power Group will emit less greenhouse gases and other pollutants.