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Your Business and the Carbon Pricing Mechanism

The Carbon Pricing Mechanism, (also referred to as the CPM or Carbon Tax in the media), is an Australian Government initiative that will put a price...

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NSW Environmental Report Hotline

SITA has established a dedicated Environmental Hotline for anyone living or working close to our sites in NSW. This service is available 24/7. To find out more...

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SITA sponsors KABNSW EnivroMentors Program

SITA Australia is the proud sponsor of the Keep Australia Beautiful NSW EnviroMentors education program.

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NSW Waste Acceptance & Charges Brochure

Your guide to recycling charges, opening hours and waste acceptance criteria at our NSW Resource Recovery sites.

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Green Energy Production

SITA's landfills have systems and infrastructure in place to allow renewable energy to be produced onsite.

Organic waste breaks down naturally to produce landfill gas, which is largely composed of methane.

While methane is a potent greenhouse gas, it can also be used in specialised generators to produce electricity, and systems are in place at SITA's landfill to achieve this. Pipes are laid within the landfill cells as they are filled so that landfill gas can be collected after filling operations.

The landfill gas is extracted and cleaned to harvest the methane, which is transferred to onsite electricity plants as fuel. The power generated by the onsite engines is returned to the grid as renewable energy to power households.

Our continual investment in landfill gas capture technology has reduced greenhouse gas emissions from landfill and seen an increase in the production of renewable energy from our sites. In 2009-2010 our sites produced enough renewable energy to power over 42,000 homes!

Green Energy Case Studies


Lucas Heights Resource Recovery Park

The New Illawarra Road landfill, located at our Lucas Heights Resource Recovery Park, is connected to a 17.25MW electricity plant, and gas can also be transferred to the nearby Lucas Heights I 5.75MW plant as fuel. This makes the Lucas Heights based landfill one of the largest landfill to electricity generators in NSW.

Both plants are accredited GreenPower® generators and together, they can produce sufficient electricity to supply around 23,000 homes per annum. By capturing methane and providing renewable energy to replace fossil fuel-generated electricity, the project reduces the levels of greenhouse gas emissions associated with waste management - an important contribution to mitigating climate change.

Hampton Park Resource Recovery Precinct

Our Hallam Road Landfill site, located at our Hampton Park Resource Recovery Precinct in Victoria, has an installed capacity of 6.6MW, which is enough to power over 6,000 homes. The site has recently received an EPA works approval to increase the number of electricty generators from 6 to 8, which will significantly increase the sites installed capacity and the amount of renewable electricity produced for household consumption.