J.J. Richards & Sons Pty Ltd are joint venture partners in the TiTree BioEnergy Facility located at Willowbank in South East Queensland. Situated on a former open cut coal mine, the facility uses bioreactor technology to rapidly stabilise waste. This accelerated decomposition results in the generation of energy providing gases (biogas) which can be harnessed to generate clean energy which is sold back to the grid. Over the next 10 years green power generation is expected to increase to 10MWh which is equivalent to powering over 12,000 homes, removing 90,000 cars from the road or planting 1.4 million trees.
For further information on TiTree please follow this link http://www.titreebioenergy.com.au/
J.J. Richards operate a Construction & Demolition Waste Resource Recovery Facility in a former hard rock quarry at Oxenford in South East Queensland. This operation engages practices that promote recovery and recycling of wastes generated by the construction and demolition industry.
Incoming mixing waste, once destined for landfill burial, is sorted and screened to recover commodities including soil, steel, concrete, timber and green waste. These are either sent for recycling and/or beneficial reuse off site, or are further processed at North End into products such as turf underlay soil, crushed concrete roadbase and drainage aggregate. Residual wastes are either landfilled as part of the ongoing restoration of the quarry or are transferred to licensed sites elsewhere.
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The Stapylton Transfer Station commenced operation in September 2008 and has been designed and licensed to accept domestic and commercial / industrial waste with a capacity in excess of 120 000 tonnes per year.
Currently timber, cardboard, ferrous and non-ferrous metals are being extracted from the waste stream for recycling. The remaining waste is loaded into B-double walking floor transfer trailers and transported to the Ti Tree BioEnergy Facility at Willowbank where it will be used in the waste to energy (ie electricity generation) process. (For further information on TiTree please follow this link http://www.titreebioenergy.com.au/
The facility has been purpose built for the site and includes the following design features/systems to reduce the impact the facility has on the environment:
