The only viable alternatives for running a Resource Recovery Centre for handling dry waste and a Composting Unit for the wet component are incineration of the former and landfill of the latter. The solutions may sound to be cost-effective but leave a much higher Carbon Footprint.
Our activities have roughly on a monthly average, saved about 71 tonnes equivalent of CO2 emissions on the dry waste front, and yet another 15 on the wet.
The savings for dry waste are measured against the projected emission of .0012 kg of CO2 eq for each kg incinerated. As for wet waste the reduction is based on the release of 0.27 kg CO2 eq for each kg composted as against the 0.35 when the same is landfilled.
