The Trajectories of Large Scale Landfills and their International Counterparts

EACH TO THEIR OWN: THE TRAJECTORIES OF LARGE SCALE
LANDFILLS AND THEIR INTERNATIONAL COUNTERPARTS
Roslyn Florie-George || 2nd May 2017

May 2017 | REMONDIS Australia Pty Ltd
REMONDIS Australia: Landfill Trajectories2
The RETHMANN Group
Global Leader in Logistics and Waste Services
▪ Turnover: 12,200 Mio. €
▪ Employees: 62,900
▪ Turnover: 6,400 m €
Turnovers are consolidated
▪ Contract logistics
▪ Freight logistics
▪ Port logistics
▪ Public transport
▪ Water management
▪ Waste and recycling management
▪ High-quality goods from animal
by-products
▪ Producer of renewable energy
▪ Service provider for the agricultural
and food sector

REMONDIS Global
Locations

The Stats

The Scorecard
International Facilities

REMONDIS Australia
Key Landfill Operations

REMONDIS Australia
Landfill Government Client Throughput
(tpa)
Features
Rochedale
Landfill
Brisbane City Council 450,000
World class facility with
gas capture of 3,500MWh
per annum.
Swanbank
Landfill
Ipswich City Council &
Brisbane City Council
600,000
Landfill gas recovery and
power generation.
Springmount
Landfill
Cassowary Coast Regional
Council, Cook Shire Council and
Tablelands Regional Council
100,000
Joint venture with
FGF Developments Pty Ltd.
Hogan’s Pocket
Landfill
Mackay Regional Council 95,000
Highly engineered landfill
with landfill gas recovery.
Mugga Lane
Landfill
ACT Territory and Municipal
Services
250,000
Landfill gas recovery and
first KPI based landfill
contract.

Mugga Lane Landfill
ACT
 Timeline:
 1970s: Opened
 1975: Source separated streams recycled
 1984: Leachate management systems
 1998: LFG flare installed
 2000: LFG generator installed
 2007: Mixed streams recycled
 Site Characteristics:
 KPI based contract
 Composting, C&D recycling, re-use centre
and transfer station on site
 Services the Canberra region
 No landfill levy

Swanbank Landfill
Queensland
 Timeline:
 1997: Opened
 2002: ReOrganic LFG energy program
 2003: Ipswich Council Awards
 2008: Leachate pond upgrades
 2011: Brisbane floods
 2012: LFG power generation
 2013: WMAA innovation award
 2017: 20th Anniversary
 2025: Stage 1 closure
 2065: Stage 2 closure
 First privately owned and operated
engineered landfill in Queensland
 250ha of former coal mines
 Services SE Queensland
 No landfill levy
 Monocell for high level contaminated
wastes
 Largest landfill to use phytocap technology

REMONDIS International

REMONDIS International
Landfill Operator Voidspace (m3)
Lippewerk Factory Landfill REMONDIS 8 million
Wesendorf Central Landfill REMONDIS 2 million
Hubbelrath Central Landfill AWISTA (73% REMONDIS) 4.5 million
Am Turm Landfill AWM (67% REMONDIS) 4.8 million
Stern Landfill
Deponiegesellschaft Ostvorpommern mbH
(37% REMONDIS)
1.5 million
Kapiteltal Landfill
ZAK (in partnership with REMEX (REMONDIS
subsidiary))
14 million

Lippewerk Factory Landfill
Lünen, Germany
 Timeline:
 1938 – 1990: Bauxite processing site with
adjacent landfill
 1993: Site purchased by REMONDIS and
developed into an industrial recycling
centre; landfill continues to be in use
 Landfill services the largest industrial
recycling centre in Europe
 Receives 100,000tpa+ of residual material
(from 1,034,000tpa of incoming material)
 Residual from metal slag recycling and
sodium aluminate manufacturing

Kapiteltal Landfill
Kaiserslautern, Germany
 Timeline:
 1975: Opened
 2006: Decommissioned
 2013: Planning approval granted for “new
on old” cell design to extend life
 2016: Landfill re-opened to receive treated
waste (mineral waste)
 Public private partnership
 Project extended landfill life by 35 years
 90ha site
 Originally designed for untreated MSW

Landfill Trajectories
Germany
2010+: landfill mining trials/“old on new”
2005+: Centrally located MBTs and incinerators established
2005: Stockpiling of untreated baled waste
2004: Over supply of untreated waste and reduced gate fees prior to ban
1993: No organic waste (>3%) to be sent to landfill by 2005 (landfill ban)
Purpose built facilities with landfill gas management systems

Landfill Trajectories
Australia
Recycling facilities established alongside existing landfill assets
Government funded recycling infrastructure grants (typically in high landfill levy regions)
Landfill levies progressively introduced (vary state to state)
Landfill gas systems implemented in response to regulation and carbon pricing
Quarries and mines converted into landfills

Drivers of Change
Australia and Germany
 Legislation
 Carbon management
 Landfill levies
 Landfill bans (e.g. no unprocessed waste into landfill)
 Commodity markets
 Viability of recycling vs. landfill
 Energy markets
 Electricity and steam users
 Urban encroachment
 Social license to operate
 Land availability

Conclusions
 Landfill continues to be critical in an integrated waste management system
 Landfill dependency has changed (reduced but not eliminated)
 Level of reliance dependent on:
 Regulatory intervention: bans, levies, carbon
 Incentives: infrastructure grants for resource recovery operations
 Germany’s landfills are approximately 15-20 years ahead of Australia’s landfills
 Landfill bans on organic waste
 Nation and European wide directives
 Future of landfilling:
 Australia: integrated resource recovery parks / precincts that leverage existing landfill
licenses
 Germany: landfill mining and “new on old” landfill designs

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