Sacyr Environment Australia Pty Ltd

Sacyr has completed the establishment of its waste treatment plant in Melbourne. Sacyr through its subsidiaries Sacyr Industrial and Sacyr Environment has built its first waste treatment project in Australia, the mechanical and biological treatment plant for municipal organic waste in Dandenong South (Melbourne, Victoria).

The indoor composting facility will be the most advanced facility of its type in Victoria and will be used by Councils in the South Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne, providing service to a population of 1.2 million people to recycle green garden and food waste. The plant will treat the organic waste obtained from selective collection and will have a maximum capacity of 120,000 tonnes per year

The contract, awarded by MWRRG (Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Group) includes the financing, engineering, construction, commissioning and operation for 15 years, with a possible extension of five years. 

Sacyr’s state of the art industrial composting facility takes the process of composting and makes it large scale. Instead of relying on individuals to compost their organic waste, Sacyr can compost the organic waste of eight south-east Melbourne metropolitan councils and produce up to 50,000 tonnes of quality compost per annum.

• Composting