Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) disposal is a major ecological challenge. Landfills, which has been the preferred solution, pollute well water, demand ever expanding land use, and contaminate their surroundings with unpleasant odors. All of which make them the worst possible solution for Israel, a country with limited water and land resources, and with crowded population centers.
The search for new methods have produced incinerators, biological treatments, recycling by manual sorting and more; however, all of those solutions are expensive and have had only partial successes, if that. Therefore, the unique ArrowBio MSW treatment process is well-suited to Israel, but also a method to produce ?green? energy for transportation and power plants.
According to the Haifa-based Arrow Ecology Ltd., developers of the ArrowBio Process, the system is a ?unique technology that succeeds to treat MSW, to recover materials from the waste and to produce Biogas, that is an alternative, clean and ?green? energy....? The company reports that the ?process was tested in the last five years in laboratory and field tests at the semi-industrial plant near Hadera, Israel. It was approved, by scientists from Israel, the US and others, as more effective and economically better than all existing methods.? With the ArrowBio Process, traditional recyclables (metal, glass, plastic) are recovered, while diverse biodegradable organic waste is converted into three products: high quality biogas, organic residue not needing further treatment for use as in soil, and biologically generated water. Thus, less than ten percent of the incoming waste exits as biologically inert residue to be landfilled.
In December of 2002, the first full-scale ArrowBio plant, consisting of one 220 ton per day module, was brought online at the Tel Aviv MSW transfer station. At the Tel Aviv facility, the biogas, produced by the plant, is actually used to generate electricity for the plant. The plant will also be able to sell power in the future, as well, reports Arrow Ecology.
In sum, the company says, ?the ArrowBio Process is a currently available, cost-effective, benign, non-threatening, MSW management technology suited to the demanding needs of the 21st century. Its benefits include energy production and near-zero landfilling.?
The search for new methods have produced incinerators, biological treatments, recycling by manual sorting and more; however, all of those solutions are expensive and have had only partial successes, if that. Therefore, the unique ArrowBio MSW treatment process is well-suited to Israel, but also a method to produce ?green? energy for transportation and power plants.
According to the Haifa-based Arrow Ecology Ltd., developers of the ArrowBio Process, the system is a ?unique technology that succeeds to treat MSW, to recover materials from the waste and to produce Biogas, that is an alternative, clean and ?green? energy....? The company reports that the ?process was tested in the last five years in laboratory and field tests at the semi-industrial plant near Hadera, Israel. It was approved, by scientists from Israel, the US and others, as more effective and economically better than all existing methods.? With the ArrowBio Process, traditional recyclables (metal, glass, plastic) are recovered, while diverse biodegradable organic waste is converted into three products: high quality biogas, organic residue not needing further treatment for use as in soil, and biologically generated water. Thus, less than ten percent of the incoming waste exits as biologically inert residue to be landfilled.
In December of 2002, the first full-scale ArrowBio plant, consisting of one 220 ton per day module, was brought online at the Tel Aviv MSW transfer station. At the Tel Aviv facility, the biogas, produced by the plant, is actually used to generate electricity for the plant. The plant will also be able to sell power in the future, as well, reports Arrow Ecology.
In sum, the company says, ?the ArrowBio Process is a currently available, cost-effective, benign, non-threatening, MSW management technology suited to the demanding needs of the 21st century. Its benefits include energy production and near-zero landfilling.?