The Plasco Advantage

Plasco Energy Group Inc. provides the very best environmental and economic option for dealing with residual waste and generating clean and green electricity:

• Plasco finances, builds, owns and operates its facilities. That means taxpayers aren’t asked to shoulder the financial burden of building a facility.

• Plasco provides communities with budgetary certainty by setting fixed tipping fees for a 20 year period.

• To bring Plasco into your community the only requirements are a guaranteed waste stream, guaranteed sale of electricity and a location.

• Plasco facilities are built in identical 100 tonne-per-day modules. This eliminates any scale-up risk associated with our technology and allows a facility to be constructed and commissioned in 15 months.

• Plasco is proud of its technology and environmental excellence. We show it off and it builds strong community support. Open and transparent community engagement through planning, building and operation of a facility is just part of the way we operate.

Responsible Management of Waste and Resources

Until now, waste has been a problem typically managed by shipping it long distances for disposal. This results in serious emissions from trucking and shifts the environmental burden to areas that didn’t create the waste. Also, since power generation from waste is typically done in large incinerators that communities don't want to be near, electricity is often transmitted long distances back to urban areas. When electricity travels long distances, up to ten percent of the power is lost (transmission line loss) and costs are about $10 per megawatt-hour.

Plasco allows waste to be dealt with where it is created, and electricity to be generated where it is needed. Our plants can be distributed across rural, light-industrial or commercial zones inside or near cities. Here’s why:

• Facilities don’t emit odors because only a small amount of waste is stored for short periods of time and it is always inside a building with negative air pressure

• Noise levels are very low

• Ultra-low atmospheric emissions come only from engine exhaust

• No other emissions or effluent, only clean water

• Since we convert waste so efficiently, facilities can be as small as 200 tonnes per day

• The physical size of a facility is small (200 tonne-per-day facilities require 4 acres, and for every additional 100 tonne-per-day capacity 1 acres is required)

• The facilities exterior will be designed by a renowned Canadian architect, Douglas J. Cardinal, to match the aesthetic preferences of the local area