Project Summary - Lebanon's Gasification Initiative:
Lebanon's Gasification Initiative will divert over 16,000,000 pounds of waste from landfills every year, cleanly produce electricity to help power our waste water treatment plant; and produce and end product that we can sell. This will further position Lebanon to be a leader in Sustainability and is a major part of our long term goal to divert all landfill waste to productive uses. This is an expansion of our successful city-wide Think Green - Think Clean initiatives.
Annual Benefits:
- Electricity equal to 312 homes
- Carbon of 450 vehicles
- Diversion from dump equivalent to a line of semi trucks 4 miles long
Waste Reduction
- What goes in daily - 32 tons of landfill wood/tires/biosolids
- What comes out - 1.6 tons of useful Bio-Char
- Reduced by 95% (32 tons of waste reduced to 1.6 tons of Bio - Char) And the Bio - Char is VALUABLE/SELLABLE/USEFUL (potential use as Soil Additive)
Green Initiative - Helps Environment
- A Clean Porcess approved by TDEC to convert waste to energy
- Reduces waste to landfill and extends the life of landfill
- Local Beneficial Use- Eliminates long hauling out of state
- Clean Electricity
- Bio-char returns carbon and nutrients to soil
- Reduces Carbon Footprint
- Control of uncertain future disposal costs
The Real Green $$$ (Five Revenue Sources - All Positive)
Waste Elimination - Creates New Revenue Source
Plant Reduction - Save chemical cost and energy consumption
Hauling - Positive revenue source
Electrical Production - Saves Money of power costs
Bio-char - Sold for a profit and productive Uses