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Our Environmental Focus
A characteristic of the partnerships Ace Waste has forged with its clients is the help our Company provides to combating climate change – one of the most important environmental issues facing us all today.
The guiding influence on this philosophy is Ace Waste’s Environmental Management System (EMS) which sets strict limits on the environmental impacts of our activities.
Ace Waste’s facilities are the only waste disposal facility continuously (real time) monitored 24 hours per day by the Environmental Protection Agency and our Queensland facility has over 90,000 hours of incident free data.
Continuous monitoring covers temperatures and air flows at the various stages as well as combustion efficiency parameters (ie oxygen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide levels) and PH monitoring in the air pollution control system. The data provided to the Environmental Protection Agency is used by that authority to provide graphic records on the performance of the incinerator and used for comparison with Licence conditions.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PLANS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Ace Waste has made a commitment to the principles of Sustainable Development. This means adopting business strategies and activities that meet the needs of the Company and its clients while protecting, supporting and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future.
Ace Waste has two key goals:
- To ensure our operations are more sustainable. This means making changes that reduce the impacts of our operations on the environment and community whilst continuing to earn healthy profits; and
- To have an influence on the behaviour of others by building partnerships to help others adopt more sustainable practices.
CARBON CREDIT
The two most common disposal methods for the disposal of Clinical and Related Waste are High Temperature Incineration and Autoclaving/Landfilling. Ace Waste can demonstrate that High Temperature Incineration is a more environmentally friendly disposal process than Autoclaving/Landfilling. In fact Methane is 24 times more potent than CO2 as a GHG, and so 1 tonne of emitted Methane will be expressed as 24 tonnes of CO2e emitted.
ACE WASTE ANAEROBIC DIGESTION INITIATIVE
Ace Waste is committed to finding alternative and environmentally friendly means of disposal that promote Energy Recovery. As part of our long term Total Waste Management Plan Ace Waste will look at such processes as Anaerobic Digestion for the disposal of all Organic and Wet Waste.
Anaerobic Digestion is a series of processes in which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen, used for industrial or domestic purposes to manage waste and/or to release energy.
It is widely used as part of the process to treat wastewater. As part of an integrated waste management system, anaerobic digestion reduces the emission of landfill gas into the atmosphere.
Anaerobic digestion is widely used as a renewable energy source because the process produces a methane and carbon dioxide rich biogas suitable for energy production, helping to replace fossil fuels. The nutrient-rich digestate which is also produced can be used as fertiliser.
One of Ace Waste’s key initiatives in terms of Resource Recovery is to use the Biogas (Syngas) generated from the decomposition of Organics Wastes through the process of Anaerobic Digestion to assist with the combustion process within the High Temperature Incinerator therefore reducing the need for other fossil fuel energy sources.