April 2007

The $50 million Macarthur Resource Recovery Park, now under construction on our existing Jacks Gully site, will showcase our Ecolibrium^TM solution as the largest fully integrated municipal waste management site in Australia. The park will be built as a result of Campbelltown, Camden, Wollondilly and Wingecarribee councils entering into a 15-year resource recovery contract with WSN Environmental Solutions.

The four councils needed an integrated solution that would work with their existing bin systems, treat the waste locally and provide a closed-loop approach to resource use by returning as many products as possible to the community and the local councils.

WSN analysed the needs of each council and then developed the concept of the Macarthur Resource Recovery Park. The park will process recyclables, organics and mixed solid waste from the Campbelltown, Camden, Wollondilly and Wingecarribee council areas. All waste brought to the park will be treated on-site, and generally only recovered products, such as recyclables and compost, will leave the site.

The site will include a fully enclosed tunnel composting system to process 30,000 tonnes of organics each year, a materials recycling facility for sorting up to 30,000 tonnes of recyclables per year, a resident drop-off area, a community visitor and education centre, a Clean Up Waste recovery facility and a landfill for inert waste.

The centrepiece of the park is the Ecolibrium^TM Mixed Waste Facility using world-leading ArrowBio technology from the Arrow Ecology Group in Israel. ArrowBio is a proven technology that uses flotation to sort the waste and natural biological processes to produce high-quality fertiliser.

The development will also assist the local economy, providing between 30 and 50 jobs during the construction phase, and 40 full-time jobs when the plant is operational.

Find out more:

Download the Macarthur Resource Recovery Park case study
Download ArrowBio for Mixed Waste brochure
Download the Tunnel Composting for Organics brochure