Articles

• Major waste-to-energy hub
  31 October 2025, by Philippe

  Recovering biomethane and energy from waste produced on the island.
  By 2026, combining multiple technologies to divert 148 kt/year of waste from landfilling: Methanizer producing renewable biogas and soil amendments from biowaste RDF (*Refuse-derived fuel) facility producing local, low carbon energy from waste to replace the use of coal and fossil gas
  Total amount of energy produced : 121 000 MWh/year.
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• Ecocombust II
  24 November 2023, by Philippe

  Black pellets from wood waste as a substitute for coal.
  Wood waste conversion into black pellet to fuel the Cordemais coal-fired power plant. Transformation of wood waste by steam cracking to produce 160,000 t of black pellets/year as an alternative fuel to coal. The plant uses 250,000 t/year of B-wood and 40,000 t/year of Solid Recovered Fuels.

• Recycled PET production
  24 November 2023, by Philippe

  France Plastiques Recyclage.
  Production of recycled plastic (rPET) as a substitute for primary PET: 45,000 t/year of PET bottles from selective collection processed 41,000 t/year rPET produced
  – https://www.paprec.com/fr/france-plastiques-recyclage-derniere-ligne-droite-pour-les-travaux-dextrusion/

• Non-recyclable waste into green energy
  24 November 2023, by Philippe

  Heat and power production as an alternative to landfilling.
  The Sète waste-to-energy plant:
  55,000 t/y of non-recyclable waste processed in an 18.1 MW oscillating furnace to produce 15.7 GWh of electricity 23 GW of steam
  – https://www.paprec.com/fr/ikos-fresnoy-folny-pionnier-de-la-methanisation