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Orange County <br />March 23, 2016 <br />Page 3 of 11 <br />0 <br />The Dongara facility located in Ontario, Canada was designed to process approximately 200,000 tons per <br />year of residential MSW from surrounding communities. The processing system recovered high value <br />materials such as metals and removed undesirable contaminants, glass, PVC plastics, etc.' Constructed at <br />a cost of $50 million, the facility was a technical success, but failed commercially as it could not obtain a <br />non -waste designation for its fuel product in Canada. For a while, the company exported its fuel to the <br />United States, but increasing transportation costs made that uneconomic and the facility was closed in <br />2014^. <br />Waste Management, Inc., ( "WMI ") has developed two SRF production facilities to produce a proprietary <br />product called SpecFUECm. The commercial success of these facilities is unknown as WMI considers the <br />information to be confidential. The Philadelphia facility was the result of a public procurement conducted <br />by the City of Philadelphia which encouraged the development of a pilot facility. <br />The Edmonton facility serves as the front end processing step for the Enerkem waste -to- ethanol <br />production facility. The mixed waste processing facility, owned by the City of Edmonton, appears to be <br />workingas planned. The waste gasification and methanol production components have been constructed, <br />started up, tested, and produced methanol as planned in 2015. The energy conversion facility is currently <br />shutdown to install the methanol -to- ethanol conversion line which is expect to be completed in 20175. <br />The Infinitus project in Montgomery, Alabama was successfully constructed at a cost of $35 million and <br />placed into commercial operation in 2014. The project economics 3 were based upon a $28 per ton tipping <br />fee coupled with high recycled commodity revenues of which 40 -50% were shared with the host <br />communtty6. The collapse in commodity prices has made the project uneconomic and Infinitus shut the <br />facility down in October 2015. As of the date of this memorandum, the City of Montgomery and Infinitus <br />are considering alternatives for this project and contract. <br />Entsorga MBT Facility <br />On January 6, 2016, Entsorga West Virginia LLC ( "Entsorga "), held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new <br />mechanical biology treatment ( "MBT ") facility in Martinsburg (Berkeley County), West Virginia. This <br />groundbreaking was the culmination of a six plus year project development effort driven primarily by the <br />project's three private sector participants: Entsorga Italia S.p.A. (technology provider), Apple Valley Waste <br />3 Dongara, Manufacturing Process, http : / /www.dongara.ca /mprocess.html <br />4 The Star, York Region ends contract <br />with company turning garbage into fuel pellets, November <br />3, 2014, <br />htto: / /www.thestar.com /news /gta /2014/11/03/vork <br />region ends .contract with company turning garbage int <br />o fuel pellets.html. <br />s Enerkem, Enerkem Alberta Biofuels: a <br />global <br />game - changing facility! http: / /enerkem.com /facilities /enerkem- <br />alberta- Biofuels /. <br />' Recycling Today, Montgomery, Alabama, <br />mixed <br />-waste processing facility announces temporary closure, <br />October <br />51 2013, https://www.recyclinptoday.com/ <br />article <br />/ montgomery- alabama- infinitus- waste - processing - temporary- <br />closure. <br />GBBSOL WASTE R 3 GBB/C15099 -02 <br />Ca <br />