Less landfill. Less coal. One plant does both.

Mixed municipal waste stops being a cost to bury and becomes feedstock. Every tonne processed is a tonne that does not go into the ground.

A city pays to collect and bury its waste. Once a plant stands between collection and landfill, the same tonne becomes the first input of a process with a product at the end of it. At the designed capacity, that is 7,500 tonnes a day that enters the plant rather than the ground.

Refuse derived fuel can replace part of the coal used in cement kilns, which run hot enough to use it cleanly and continuously.

Cement kilns burn large volumes of coal at very high temperatures. Those temperatures are what make refuse derived fuel usable in them: the fuel burns cleanly and the kiln runs continuously. Every tonne of fuel supplied displaces part of a tonne of coal the kiln would otherwise buy.

Less landfill methane from decomposing waste and less fossil fuel burned at the kiln, from the same tonne of material.

Waste that decomposes in landfill releases methane. Coal burned at the kiln releases fossil carbon. One tonne of municipal waste processed into fuel reduces both at once, which is why the concept addresses a waste problem and a fuel problem with one plant.