'Green' energy created from Sydney's waste

The Clyde Transfer Terminal has moved over 1 million tonnes of mixed solid waste from councils and commercial contractors in the Sydney metropolitan area to the Veolia Environmental Services’s Woodlawn Bioreactor, near Canberra, since 2005. Full operation of the bioreactor’s first generator commenced in February 2008 producing viable ‘green’ energy, produced from methane gas created by the waste. Energy Australia uses this energy to power homes in NSW. Veolia is also undertaking mine rehabilitation works and progressing with a wind farm, aquaculture and horticulture projects at the site, the company said.