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Clean Earth Energy ~fawaii -Milo, LLC Sustainable Integrate~`Waste to energy ~Fa~ties Automobiles are disassembled after fuel, motor oil, transmission fluid and antifreeze are drained and the battery removed. Collected petroleum products aze stored as used oil and off-spec fuel for combustion. Batteries aze stored for off-site shipment. Plastic is also removed and placed in appropriate WRC recycling bins. The remaining vehicle hulk is cnuhed and shipped off-site as scrap steel. Wood scrap is shredded and added to landfill blocks for methane production. An encapsulated dead animal pit is also provided for convenience. Construction and demolition debris (CBcD) is sorted as practicable and also incorporated into the landfill as cover. Asbestos waste is placed in a separate landfill cell adjacent to the LSC. Medical waste is not processed at the facility and is shipped to a medical waste incinerator. Organic based materials, used oil, off-spec fuel, tires, miscellaneous petroleum products, wood scrap, and any carbon based materials separated can also be utilized as carbon feedstock for the AC1tR. Land511 Stack Center (LSC) Approximately 68% of the municipal solid waste collected at the landfill is organic in nature and amenable to producing significant quantities of landfill gas. This waste is captured in a processing bin or hopper after recyclables are removed. The organic waste is reduced in volume by a factor of six (6) in a lazge repeating pulse hydraulic press. Similar super compactors have been developed and used by the Department of Energy for years to manage nuclear wastes. When compacted, the waste bale or block is pushed into a second bin where it is bound with four strands of wire. The secured block is then pushed into a third chamber where it slides into a large 50 mil plastic open top block. A secured and sealed plastic lid will then be added to the top of block. Each block is an appropriate size conducive to truck transport with a compacted volume of approximately 600 ft~. Two ports consisting of 4 inch diameter plastic pipes are inserted at opposite ends of the top of each landfill block through the locking lid. The pipe penetrating the block with depth is added for injecting water (clean, wash down, or leachate) or liquid biochemical treatment reagents (bacteria and nutrient broth) to enhance landfill gas production. The shallow penetrating pipe is used to extract landfill gas. Landfill blocks are stored and delivered to the Landfill Stack Center (LSC) for placement in an excavated cell in defined arrays of 100 blocks. Gas produced from the landfill is cleaned and separated using conventional chemical engineering processes into carbon dioxide (50%) and methane gas fractions (50%}. It is anticipated that block arrays will produce gas for 25 years or more. Optional processes for refomvng the carbon dioxide fraction of landfill gas to methane (50%) are currently under development by Clean Earth Energy Hawaii-Hilo LLC including new chemical conversion processes and a biological process. Under the proper conditions of temperature, pressure and solvated electron flow, carbon dioxide can be converted to methane. Bacteria (Methmtococcus jamwsci?ii) grown at high temperature (70C) and high pressure (200 atm) are also known to convert cazbon dioxide to methane. The Department of Energy has spent millions of dollars genetically decoding these genera of bacteria and only recently has developed methodology allowing the bacteria to be successfully cultured and used in reactor vessels. SIIVEF Technkd Proposal caafrdeatfa! a