3WAYSTE SAS has been awarded and received on 2nd of April 2019, under the French National Assembly President’s patronage M. Richard Ferrand, the Recycling National Prize, as an Innovative Technology. The jury was composed of about twenty political figures, journalists and professionals and was co-chaired by the ADEME’s President (French Environment and Energy Management Agency) and the President of FEDEREC (Professional Federation of Recycling Companies).
A circular economy is an alternative to a traditional linear economy (make, use, dispose) in which we keep resources in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value from them whilst in use, then recover and regenerate products and materials at the end of each service life.
Our common goal is to reduce waste but based on reputable global forecasts this remains a real challenge for humanity. The next best thing is to recover and reuse as much as possible, to make a circular economy work.
The patented 3WAYSTE® technology is at the heart of the circular economy:
Sorts all waste, and recovers and diverts an unprecedented 90% of resources contained in waste;
Converts these resources into products of greater value than the value of the waste itself, adding to economic productivity.
The more resources we recover and reuse, the more precious resources we preserve. We save on polluting incineration that often burns valuable resources that could have still been used and we save on landfills, which contribute a substantial amount of greenhouse gases to our climate.
The unprecedented waste recovery and diversion achieved by 3WAYSTE® means less landfills and less mass incineration. In addition, 3WAYSTE® plants are ultra clean and meet the strictest environmental standards permitting construction in proximity to urban centers, thereby saving on noise pollution and transport-related carbon emissions.
We believe, technologies such as 3WAYSTE® are an important tool in our quest for sustainable development to protect our planet and our common future.
3WAYSTE SAS is a proud member of the
Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN), established by the United Nations to accelerate transfer of environmentally sound technologies for low carbon and climate resilient development to lower income countries.
3WAYSTE invested more than 9 million Euros in up-grading its original waste processing plant named ALTRIOM in France (Haute-Loire) that also serves as Technology Centre for R&D and the global showroom. The plant has a processing capacity of 120,000 tones per year and has been operating at commercial scale since July 2014.
Over the last years, 32% of the waste was converted into quality compost, 18% into secondary raw materials (cardboard, plastic, ferrous and non-ferrous metals) and 40% into a high-calorific value solid recovered fuel (SRF) supplied to LafargeHolcim for cement production.
With 3WAYSTE®, the agglomeration of Le Puy-En-Velay is able to achieve the unprecedented waste recovery and diversion rate of 92% compared to the national average of 40%, for which 3WAYSTE SAS received the Sustainability Trophy in 2015.
The 3WAYSTE® technology and system has been selected by SUEZ Environment for a new facility that will process 170,000 tons household and business waste a year under a 15-year contract worth 242 million Euros awarded by the inter-communal syndicate for waste treatment SYDNE. Operations are scheduled to begin on 1 July 2019. The project is being implemented by Suez subsidiary Inovest, Energipole Group which holds the territorial sub-license for the 3WAYSTE® technology and 3WAYSTE SAS.
Almost 30% of waste will be transformed into secondary raw materials (cardboard, plastic, ferrous and non-ferrous metals) and compost while 48% will be used to produce a high-quality solid recovered fuel (SRF) to power an electricity production facility that will supply renewable electricity to 22,000 households.
With the 3WAYSTE® solution the region will be able to reduce landfilling by 72%, which will take it over the 50% waste recovery target by 2025 required by French environmental transition law.
