The world generates huge volumes of agricultural waste. Much of this waste has largely been left to rot in the fields, but several rapid advances in technology are creating opportunities to turn agricultural waste into valued commodities such as power, or into added-value products such as fertilizer and clean fuel.
Biogas Production. This involves biogas production collected from waste water from manufacturing facilities. Projects can make use of the gas for process heat or power generation that can be used by the manufacturing facility or sold to the grid.
Agricultural Solid Waste Utilization. By way of example, South East Asia produces more than 50% of the total global coconut production. The coconut waste (consisting of coconut husk) is a feedstock for two distinct products that serve two large global markets: coco-fibre products including geo-textiles and coco-peat products, an organic substitute which can replace a large part of global substrate market, driven by new regulations to limit the use of environmentally-damaging traditional bogland peat.
Biomass is an increasingly important fuel for power generation. Sindicatum secures supply via the upstream part of the biomass supply chain, by either controlling the growing of the biomass feed or otherwise acquiring rights to material volumes of supply on a long term basis.