A multi-million dollar facility that will transform industrial thermal residues from waste-to-energy plants into sustainable manufactured aggregate for the construction industry is set to be built in Victoria.
The development follows the launch of O.C.O Victoria, a new joint venture company formed by Australian-owned end-to-end construction and demolition materials recycler City Circle Group and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) specialist O.C.O.
The new company was officially unveiled with a stand at Waste Expo Australia in Melbourne on October 28-29.
O.C.O Victoria will provide recycling services to Australia’s emerging energy-from-waste (EfW) industry, using carbon dioxide to treat Air Pollution Control residues (APCr) and converting them into a carbon-neutral limestone which provides an alternative to mining virgin materials.
Once completed, the plant is expected to treat up to 150,000 tonnes of APCr waste a year, producing an equivalent amount of aggregate for the Australian construction market. For every tonne of manufactured aggregate used, about 1.4 tonnes of natural aggregate is saved.