Projects & Impact

GLOBAL LANDFILL AUTHORITY

We've engineered landfills on four continents

Landfill design and restoration isn't a sideline for us — it's where several of our senior engineers built their careers, on more than $2 billion of environmental and civil infrastructure work before WasteX.

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$2B+ Environmental & civil infrastructure delivered by our landfill leadership before joining WasteX

2,000+ Acres of landfill capacity engineered, built and managed worldwide

4 Continents with completed landfill infrastructure work — North America, Europe, Asia & Africa

$100M+ Capital budgets directed across 13 U.S. states for a single landfill & environmental program

SITE CONTAINMENT

Liner & collection systems

Composite liner systems, leachate and gas-collection networks, and Construction Quality Assurance (CQA) management on facilities from initial cell construction through closure.

REGULATORY

Permitting across jurisdictions

Subtitle D municipal, industrial and hazardous-waste permitting; geotechnical and environmental site investigations; direct experience interfacing with state and federal regulators (TCEQ, LDNR, TRRC and equivalents abroad).

GAS-TO-ENERGY

Landfill-gas capture & conversion

Published, presented work on landfill-gas capture enhancement and landfill-gas-to-energy development — the same expertise that feeds our own remediation-to-power pipeline.

THE FIRST MOVE, EVERY TIME

Shred, bale & wrap: five problems solved with one process

Before any gasification or power equipment goes in, incoming waste is shredded, compacted into dense bales and wrapped airtight — a low-cost first step that starts working immediately, while the rest of a project is still being built. The wrap seals out rainwater, so there's no leachate forming underneath it. Sealed bales store safely as ready feedstock — future fuel — until equipment comes online. Compaction reclaims a meaningful share of a landfill's remaining airspace right away. The anaerobic conditions that generate methane never get the chance to start inside a sealed bale. And a wrapped bale gives rodents, birds and insects nothing to get into.

No Leachate Stores as Future Fuel Airspace Gained Immediately No Methane No Pest / Vector Access

Standard Phase-1 Move The first thing we stand up on a new site — before permitting, financing or equipment fabrication is finished

IN DESIGN NOW

Port Arthur Landfill Expansion

A next-generation facility designed for operational efficiency, regulatory compliance and multi-decade environmental stewardship — led by the same landfill leadership that has engineered and managed more than 2,000 acres of capacity across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and directed capital programs exceeding $100 million across 13 U.S. states. See our full engineering team →.

Public-Private Partnership Delivery Directed by Barry I. Esene & Harold P. Barber, PE, MBA — full credentials under Team

FARMLAND & RIVERBANK RESTORATION

Farmland and riverbanks, restored with biochar

Led by Dr. Forbes Walker, University of Tennessee Extension soil scientist, our biochar-based restoration program turns flood-damaged farmland and eroding riverbanks back into stable, productive ground.

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100Acres of flood-damaged farmland under restoration at Runion Family Farm, Washington County, TN

496.1Tons of biochar applied across the pilot — our mobile rotary kiln can produce it on-site, and is rated for it in future deployments

15–20%Targeted hay yield increase from the biochar-compost-litter treatment

35–45%Targeted reduction in erosion and sediment loss

LED BY

Dr. Forbes Walker, University of Tennessee Extension

Dr. Walker designed the soil-chemistry and microbiology testing protocol behind this restoration and led it end-to-end — sampling pH, cation exchange capacity, nutrient availability and microbial activity across a 33-plot trial, and coordinating UT Extension lab analysis throughout. The credit for turning this flood-damaged ground back into productive farmland and stable riverbank is his.

Riverbank Stabilization1.54 tons of biochar hand-applied to 0.5133 acres of riverbank to stabilize soil & reduce nutrient runoff

The pilot restores 100 acres damaged by Tropical Storm Helene (60.6 acres of silt, 39.4 acres of sand) using biochar sourced for the trial and blended with flood-debris wood chips, chicken litter and cow manure — targeting a 15–25% improvement in water retention alongside the yield and erosion goals above, with results tracked across a 33-plot trial through 2026. Future deployments can produce this biochar on-site with our mobile rotary kiln rather than bringing it in.

FROM THE SITE VISIT

Photos from our site visit to Runion Family Farm with Dr. Forbes Walker, documenting flood conditions on the ground before restoration work began.

Woody debris windrow at Runion Family Farm, staged after the flood

Mixed scrap metal, pipe and wire debris deposited by the floodwaters

Flood-scoured ground on the property, cleared and graded

The scale of the flood-scoured farmland ahead of restoration

Cracked flood silt with new growth returning

Up to eight feet of sand and silt deposited on the farmland by floodwaters

Riverbank destabilization and loss of streamside trees, since stabilized with biochar restoration — Riverbank destabilization and loss of streamside trees — since stabilized with biochar restoration

Another woody debris windrow at Runion Family Farm, showing the volume of storm debris collected across the property — Another woody debris windrow, showing the volume of storm debris collected across the property

DISASTER RELIEF

On-site power, water and debris removal, right after the storm

A single hurricane can generate more debris than an entire region's landfills were built to hold. Our trailer-mounted, mobile gasifier systems deploy directly to the disaster site — turning that debris into power, purified water and biochar on the spot, instead of trucking it somewhere else first.

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THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM

Debris volumes that overwhelm the trucks, roads and landfills meant to clear them

Clearing the 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado — a single funnel, on the ground for 38 minutes — took more than 410 trucks a day, for months, hauling debris to landfills that were often already short on remaining airspace before the storm hit. Multiply that by a hurricane's footprint and the scale gets enormous fast:

113.5MCubic yards of debris from Hurricane Katrina (2005) across Louisiana, Mississippi & Alabama — the largest disaster-debris event on record at the time

107M+Cubic yards cleared across the Southeast in the year after Hurricanes Helene & Milton (2024)

3MCubic yards from one tornado track — the 2011 Joplin, MO EF5 — enough to cover a football field 120 stories high

2–3×Normal volume landfills take on during hurricane cleanup, on top of capacity that was often already tight

Sources: FEMA, Congressional Research Service, NIST/Joplin damage survey, SWANA.

DEBRIS

Debris reduction, on the ground

A single mobile unit is designed to take in on the order of 150 tons per day (TPD) of storm debris, sorting it to feedstock and gasifying it on-site — no trucks, no distant landfill, no waiting for disposal capacity to open up. A full ten-unit fleet scales that to roughly 1,500 TPD.

POWER & WATER

Power and clean water, off the grid

Each unit can run a generator in the hundreds of kilowatts off its own syngas — enough for sawmills, lighting and site equipment — alongside water purification, so a disaster site isn't waiting on outside fuel or utility restoration.

BIOCHAR

Biochar for the area's recovery

Char produced from cleared debris goes back into the ground — stabilizing riverbanks, restoring flood-damaged farmland and supporting contamination remediation in the same communities the disaster hit. See our farmland & riverbank restoration work →.

150 TPDTons of debris per day, per unit, that a single mobile system is designed to process on-site

35Tons of biochar per day the same debris stream can yield, at the high end

500kWOn-site generator capacity powered by the unit's own syngas

1,500 TPDCombined debris capacity of the 10-unit fleet W2E has proposed to FEMA to finance for post-disaster cleanup

WHERE THIS IS GOING

An unsolicited bid to FEMA for a 10-unit fleet

W2E has submitted an unsolicited bid to FEMA to finance a ten-unit mobile fleet, purpose-built for post-disaster cleanup. The case for it is the numbers above: when a single storm can generate more debris than a region's landfills were built to hold, on-site processing and on-site power stop being a nice-to-have and become the fastest way to get a community functioning again.

Fleet-DeployableTrailer-mounted units built to move as a fleet, not a single site installation

A mobile unit that purifies water, cuts debris volume and makes its own power removes the two biggest post-disaster constraints — trucking and landfill capacity — at once, on-site, while leaving biochar behind for the same kind of farmland and riverbank restoration we're doing at Runion Family Farm.

FIELD & FACILITY

Not renderings — a site with trucks on it

A look at the front end of the process: waste arriving, being sorted, and the finished carbon product being packaged for market.

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Aerial view of a Gulf Coast project site along a regional highway, showing the built facility footprint and stormwater ponds — Port Arthur, TX — project site and regional feedstock catchment

Incoming waste being tipped from a truck onto the receiving floor, with a wheel loader and picking line in the background — Receiving floor

Sorting line, in motion

Thermal conversion units, firing

Operator monitoring finished biochar being packaged into bulk bags for shipment — Biochar, bagged for market

Wood-chip feedstock pile — Wood-chip feedstock, staged for gasification

Thermal conversion equipment, field-installed

Biochar output curing — Biochar output, curing before packaging

Site office and process-control systems — Site office & process-control systems

Gasifier firebox, mid-run — unedited phone footage from the field

Fluid sight-glass detail on the mobile unit

WasteX mobile gasification unit deployed on site, trailer-mounted with control trailer — Mobile gasification unit, full assembly — field deployment

Close detail of WasteX gasifier blower and exhaust stack in the field — Mechanical detail on the mobile unit

Finished biochar output from a WasteX mobile unit, staged for market — Biochar output, freshly discharged

Full process video — coming soon.

Site documentation produced with EISG, a WasteX sister company.

FIELD REFERENCE

Inez, Kentucky — proof the reactor runs

Before WasteX designed a system for a customer, our engineers built one. This plant is the reason our numbers aren't projections.

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The Challenge

A private industrial client needed a commercial-scale system that could take in mixed municipal solid waste and reliably produce both electricity and recovered recyclables — not a pilot, a working plant.

The Engineering

Chief of R&D Paul E. Aiken and Principal Engineer Glenn M. Showers, PE — co-inventor of the patented process-control technology behind every WasteX system — designed, built and commissioned the plant, carrying the gasification process from Aiken's pilot-scale prototypes through to full 440 TPD commercial operation.

The Result

A 440 TPD facility running today, producing electricity and recovered recyclables for its owner. It's now the field reference WasteX sizes and de-risks every subsequent design against — from Port Arthur's refinery-adjacent facility to the Antigua regional hub.

440TPD design throughput

2sellable output streams — power & recyclables

80+years combined gasification & EfW engineering experience on the design

Livefield reference for every WasteX design since

Designed, built and commissioned by Paul E. Aiken (Chief of R&D) and Glenn M. Showers, PE (Principal Engineer, Energy 21 LLC). Owned and operated by a private industrial client — not WasteX. We're precise about that distinction; the projects below note whose they are, too.

WHERE WE'RE WORKING

Fourteen projects, one engineering approach

We currently have fourteen projects in development across the WasteX team — from a refinery-adjacent facility in Texas to a phased island-wide remediation program in the Caribbean. Three representative examples below.

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Port ArthurTexas, USA

A municipal-plus-refinery-waste facility designed to process refinery residue alongside household waste, producing power, tire-derived diesel and biochar on site — with a growth path into third-party waste intake from Louisiana and Texas, wind-blade recycling, and solar-paired power for data-center and battery-storage tenants.

MSWRefinery WasteTire DieselBiocharData Center Power

In Development

AntiguaCook's Landfill

A phased remediation and waste-to-energy program: Phase 1 stands up daily shred-bale-wrap of incoming MSW and tire-to-diesel operations; later phases add water production, biosolids and sargassum processing, on-site power for parasitic loads and data centers, and positioning the site as a regional Caribbean waste hub.

MSWTire DieselWaterData CentersRegional Hub

Phase 1

Mobile UnitField-Deployed

A trailer-mounted system owned by W2E USA, a WasteX sister company, built and tested for continuous operation — logged 14 straight days at 24 hours a day — proving the platform's reliability for remote and rapid-deployment use.

PortableDisaster Relief

Demonstrated

THE VISION

A planetary-scale platform, not another incinerator

WasteX exists to run the numbers, not to sell an ideology. Every design starts with mass balance, energy balance and unit economics — engineering-first and physics-driven, provable at commercial scale before it's ever proposed to a customer.

Waste-to-energy has a reputation problem, mostly earned by decades-old incineration technology and by projects sold on environmental sentiment instead of throughput data. WasteX is neither. Our systems are controllable, patented, and sized to what a site can actually generate, feed and finance.

The goal is a platform that scales from a single trailer-mounted unit responding to a disaster, to a regional hub processing waste for an island chain, to power infrastructure sized for industrial and data-center tenants — one underlying technology, applied at whatever scale the site calls for.

Controllable, not combustionLegacy incinerators burn everything the same way. Our patented reactor is tuned per run.

Sized on economics, not sentimentEvery proposal starts with mass balance, energy balance and unit economics.

Configured to your siteFront-end sorted or not, trailer-mounted or regional-scale — the platform adapts.

Run, not renderedA 440 TPD reference plant that's actually operating, not a slide deck.