Circular SynTech

“The most certain thing I can think of is uncertainty. The way you ‘did it’ yesterday might not be the best, most economical, most people pleasing or considered most moral way to ‘do it’ tomorrow. Change is as much a constant as “taxes” and “dying”. And, so it is with your garbage disposal.

Thanks to incredible exciting, commercialized technology, communities now have a disposal option to landfills.

Disposal of Solid Waste: Circular SynTech

Recycling caused excitement – for a while. Citizens were concerned when they found they were spending 25%-50% more money to voluntarily “recycle” metal into a metal-only container, plastic into a plastic-only container, etc., only to find out that – for the majority of the time, due to supply and demand, due to laziness, or whatever - recyclables ended in the same spot as all of the rest of their garbage: in a landfill!! And America was disillusioned.

Enter gasification. But, in a rush to serve the NIMBYs (Not-In-My-Back-Yard) of the US, many contractors called on the manufacturers of gasification as an option to landfills. But, in their haste, they made a terrible choice: they decided to skip the arduous and feasibility-killing part called “biomass”. And the manufacturers – in their haste to make a sale – did not press the point.

Now a fluidized bed gasifier has to be fed a steady diet of

• 5,000-6,000 Btu’s per pound of content material;
• 10%-15% max moisture content;
• Without any metals, concrete, asphalt, dirt, fines, electronics, computers, etc.; and,
• At a size of 1”-minus, or smaller.

Therefore, some rationalized – without knowing the whole truth – that gasification might not be the answer. But they were wrong.

Two manufacturers working with the above Circular SynTech technology to the “average” Waste Constituency and Volume Study to use as their model. What they found:

• 78.2% of ALL WASTE for disposal is gasifiable in a 3-stage (gasification-gasification-pyrolysis) gasifier IF reduced to 4”-minus and processed down to 15% max moisture content within the Circular SynTech Sort/Separate/Process building;
• 4.9% of ALL WASTE was metal that would be recycled out of the Circular SynTech Sort/Separate/Process (“SSP”)building;
• 1.3% of ALL WASTE was glass, which would be separated from all other waste in the Circular SynTech SSP building and taken to the concrete-asphalt-sand-vitreous glass (“CASVG”) creation and storage yard elsewhere on the property;
• 8.5% of ALL WASTE was dirt, fines and sheetrock dust which would be delivered to the CASVG to be used in conjunction with crushing ops;
• 1.3% concrete, rock and asphalt delivered to the CASVG to be used to create rip-rap, 1-1/2” driveway material, road repair base, etc.
• 4.2% bulky waste (e.g., freezers, AC units, mobile homes, cars, etc.) that will be taken to the Doppstadt outside the tip building; and,
• 1.6% Household Haz Waste and Household Medical Waste that will be destroyed in the pyrolysis chamber.

This is the answer to “how you dispose of waste without a landfill.”

But what does one do with this 1:1 of H2:CO? Gas-to-Liquids Create Biogenic & Sustainable Products

Two of the early gasification companies used their time and money to find a way to make gasification “work” in lieu of disposal. As a matter of fact, while they were working on gasification, they “partnered” with those – like Circular SynTech - who were attempting to create better than Fischer Tropsch for Gas-To-Liquids. Circular SynTech created gas to liquids that

• DID NOT make uneconomical, unwanted “products” that created the need for additional reactions just to use;
• Such as unsaleable waxes;
• Such as unsaleable alcohols;
• Such as methane that had to be refined to use on-site, or VENTED via flare! But,

• Circular SynTech DOES MAKE – WITH YOUR GARBAGE -
• 104.8 gallons of distillate for each ton of RDF (e.g., SAF, diesel, 3 grades of gasoline, propane or additional gasoline); and/or,
• 0.199 tons of BTX chain chemicals per ton of RDF;
• One of the BTX chemicals is called bio-para-x, a biogenic paraxylene that is the basis for a biodegradable plastic bottle!
• And all of these products are:
• Alternatives to fossil-based chemicals or distillates; and,
• The same price or CHEAPER than their fossil-based brother or sister.

Yes, and there was a test at the end. 100% aromatic reformate or 100% distillate reformate!

Transportation and Storage of Solid Waste

But, how do you transport MSW, C&D, tires, etc., to a regional process facility? Front-end loaders, rear loaders and roll-off trucks are not feasible over 30-miles, one way. Creating a REGIONAL Process Facility that can be served by 3 or 4 water transfer stations is the most economical method of creating that highest utility per ton of waste into your Process Facility. Circular SynTech has designed a water transportation/storage system (can also be used with rail) using Cross Wrap of Finland, with over 600 sites world-wide. Circular SynTech has created a transfer station with the best economics for the use of the bale-and-wrap system.

The third largest contributor to Green House Gases (GHG) in the entire world is LANDFILLS. Millions of acres of land were ruined forever. Even though we have Technology that can replace landfills? Even though 80% of a landfill can NOW create distillates and BTX-chemicals (yes, even biodegradable plastic bottles) THAT TAKE THE PLACE OF FOSSIL-BASED DISTILLATES AND CHEMICALS? Further, the technology can also Repurpose the land under an old landfill to once again support buildings, structures, neighborhoods? The time for Circular SynTech technology is NOW!