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Event at 11am, Wednesday 24 May, 2023
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Big environmental and corporate changes are happening at Adelaide’s largest landfill facility north of Adelaide at Lower Light, near Dublin.
SA Environment Minister Susan Close MP tomorrow launches the ‘Dublin Eco Hub’ to reflect broader recycling operations active on the site and will reveal a significant ownership change for the family-owned business, Integrated Waste Services.
In three decades since EPA approval of the IWS Northern Landfill, the facility has progressed beyond being ‘just a landfill’ with innovative development of multiple environmental projects.
Activities on the IWS Dublin Eco Hub now include:
- Opening of a new $10 Million investment of the IWS Secondary Processing Facility for recovering organics from MSW (general waste bin) to create a soil enhancer known as Compost Like Output (CLO). CLO supports the establishment of a native ecosystem at the IWS Dublin site. The IWS process promotes the highest order use of organic recyclables from MSW. CLO production is higher on the waste hierarchy than burning waste through a waste to energy plant. Three years of Uni SA research supports the use of recovered organics for site rehabilitation.
- IWS receives approval from the Federal Government’s Clean Energy Regulator’s for the CLO Alternative Waste Treatment process. This approval recognises the benefits to the environment of the IWS organic recovery process (CLO). The project is forecast to abate greater than a million tonnes of Carbon emissions over 13 years following. This project requires IWS to invest a further estimated $10 Million in additional infrastructure.
- IWS is launching Living Earth in Australia. Living Earth has over 30 years’ experience in New Zealand for the production and sale of commercial mulches and compost. IWS recovers up to 97% from FOGO (green bin) which will produce commercial mulches and composts for sale to the SA agricultural industry.
- IWS is partnering with our First Nations people. In conjunction with Red Centre Enterprises, IWS has established the state’s first Circular Economy Agribusiness on the Dublin site. This partnership supplies native plants and bush tucker products using IWS commercial composts.
- IWS establishes one of the state’s largest northern quarries which has supplied close to 1 million tonnes of raw materials to the growing northern development.
- IWS plans to go off the grid by the investment in power generators fuelled by methane recovered from the IWS Dublin Eco Hub.
Where: Lemmey Road, Lower Light SA (Turnoff is before township of Dublin) Travel time from Adelaide is under 40 minutes via M2 North South Motorway and Highway A1.
MEDIA CONTACT: Grace Barila – Environmental Relationship Manager 0406 001 216
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