The City of Toledo, Ohio, retained SCS Engineers to conduct an economic and technical feasibility study for development of organics processing facilities and construction and demolition (C&D) recycling/processing facilities. The City and its partner, the University of Toledo, wanted to boost their recycling of several different waste materials including:
- Leaves and green waste
- Food scraps
- C&D debris
SCS Engineers was commissioned to assess the feasibility of the following:
- Quantity of food scrap waste available and its sources in the region
- Companies that were collecting food and assessing pricing for feedstock
- Requirements to upgrade basic leaf composting sites into leaf, green waste and food composting sites
- Assessing several other sites for expanded operations; including site limitations, advantages and disadvantages
- Assessing technologies including; open windrow, aerated static pile (ASP) and anaerobic digesters
- Anaerobic digester biogas volume, treatment, uses and feasibility of storage and transportation by rail or tanker truck
- Transportation of anaerobic digester biogas by pipeline
- Assessing markets for compost: customers, locations, volumes, quality and pricing
- The City potentially operating a demolition concrete recycling operation
- Development of economic pro-formas for each scenario involving composting, anaerobic digesters and C&D recycling
A full report was prepared for our client. SCS Engineers made two in-person presentations to the City.
