Paris-based Suez has been awarded the contract to recycle and recover the municipal solid waste (MSW) of the 260,000 residents of the Northern Beaches district in the Sydney metropolitan area in Australia. The 10-year contract is valued at approximately €130 million ($155 million) will begin on July 1, 2019, according to Suez.
Suez will provide services to process and recover some 50,000 metric tons of municipal mixed solid waste and 4,000 metric tons of garden organic materials collected each year by the Northern Beaches Council. Materials collected will be sent to be processed at the Eastern Creek Advanced Resource Recovery Facility. That facility has been designed to divert household waste from landfill by recovering the recyclable materials (metals and plastics) for downstream recycling markets and converting the organic fraction of the MSW into compost for agricultural use.
The contract awarded to Suez is in line with a policy of national and local authorities to reduce the environmental footprint of waste management and to create a local circular economy loop to help meet a target of 70 percent diversion of waste from landfill starting in 2019.
“This partnership will honor our environmental responsibilities by not just meeting but exceeding our mandated targets,” says Northern Beaches Council CEO Mark Ferguson. “Using proven technologies, we will be able to recover waste as recyclables and organic material, avoiding the equivalent of more than 43 thousand metric tons of CO2 each year, for the next 10 years.”
Comments Marie-Ange Debon, Suez Group deputy CEO in charge of its International Division, “We are proud to support the Northern Beaches Council in developing solutions to recover and recycle waste into valuable new products and resources. This contract is in line with Suez's efforts to sustainably optimize waste management in order to help cities and regions improve their environmental impacts.”
In Australia, Suez is involved in both water management and MSW recycling and recovery, with the company collecting 2.2 million metric tons of discarded materials every year from 4 million residents and industrial and commercial clients. Suez indicates it is able to recycle or recover 1.2 million metric tons of that MSW each year.
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