Reclaim Resources sells ‘clean’ waste-to-energy processor to Philippines in £12 million deal

The VWP is a waste management system that transforms household rubbish into biomass before converting it into a range of energy resources, including electricity and bio-ethanol.

The British-based developer and producer of waste to energy solutions, said the agreement with the Province of Zambales, on the West Coast of the Philippines, was significant as it marked the first of a number of other similar agreements involving the supply and installation of its patented technology in the country.

Philip Hall, managing director of Reclaim Resources, commented: “I am delighted to have received a contract for our VWP from the Province of Zambales; it serves as strong recognition of the immense benefits that our technology can provide, both to the region and the environment. I believe Asia is the ideal place to drive waste-to-energy technologies such as the VWP, as it can quickly adopt and implement innovative solutions and is enthusiastic and unafraid to invest in progressive technologies.” 

The VWP reduces raw, unsorted household rubbish by up to 60 per cent using thermal hydration; processing and sanitising waste material through an innovative ‘continuous feed’ rotating stainless steel chamber. Reclaim Resources, says that unlike many other waste-to-energy strategies, VWP is a clean, low energy method of waste recycling. 

Under the agreement with the Province of Zambales, Reclaim will install a two-chamber VWP that can process 150,000 tonnes of household rubbish per annum accompanied by a full-scale bi-ethanol conversion plant. The contract provides an option to later add a further two chambers.

Reclaim said it would manufacture, supply and construct the entire plant with the majority of the equipment for the build being produced in the Philippines. Work will commence in 2009 and following a four month installation period, the VWP and bio-ethanol unit are expected to be fully operational by late 2009.

“Reclaim Resources’ technology is a timely response to the global oil crisis that would minimise our reliance to imported oil and oil products by turning solid wastes into bio-ethanol thus generating revenues, providing employment, and solving the nagging problem of solid waste disposal,” commented Atty Amor D. Deloso, the Governor of Zambales.

Reclaim said it was in final discussions with other local authorities in the Philippines, including Metro Manila that could see the British company providing an initial seven twin chambers for the production of bio-ethanol.

Reclaim, meanwhile, is undergoing planning procedures and permissions with municipalities in India and the Ukraine.