Oxstones Investment Club™Waste as a Valuable Commodity
In over 30 years of business development in emerging market countries we witnessed waste of all forms literally clog infrastructures, pollute the environment, cause human destruction, while the developed world gave voice to the corrective measures needed, but relatively little monetary support.
In the last decade, “Green” became the buzz word with countless initiatives, some successful, others only a political voice, and “Green” became the “in” business agenda, but relatively little monetary support was given to certain waste sectors; the “problems” simply were avoided.
But now, today, in our current market, “Green” as it relates to waste is truly beginning to take form, becoming a successful financial model. What has been put in landfills and lagoons globally has value, and the values in recoverable minerals, metals, plastics, “trees in form of paper”, has become less costly to “mine”.
One of the many projects we are developing has approximately 1700 metric tons per day of Municipal Solid Waste. When one looks at the value of the plastics (for recycling and RDF), and the values of recovered metals, and the paper and wood for densified fuel, and the organics for fertilizer and/or energy creation, the values of those tonnages of feed stock provided per day is significant. They are especially significant when understanding that the technology and equipment necessary to recover the values is much less “per ton of production output” than many other industries.
As an example, of this particular waste stream there is:
85 tons per day of cardboard and paper, directly convertible into fuel to replace coal with waiting buyers globally.
60 tons per day of plastics, and when sorted some of the product will have values up to several hundred dollars a ton, and has enhanced value in RDF
204 tons per day of wood, directly convertible into fuel to replace coal.
1100 tons per day of organics, over half of which is useable for organic fertilizer and/or energy production
Many developing countries are “awash” in these “values”.
Then, when one considers mine wastes in lagoons, and recoverable minerals, coal fines and paper sludge that makes excellent densified fuel, industrial ash for construction, valuable metals recovery from electronic and other wastes, the ROI on these projects can be very large, and the need for this production is even larger.
This is a business to be considered for those interested in a very good ROI, while truly alleviating the world’s environmental problems. This is one of our business initiatives. willis@gwsgrp.com
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