Municipal Solid Waste

Oxylus Integrated Solutions for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management

Oxylus aims to promote environmental solutions by controlling pollution (including air, soil, groundwater, surface water…), protecting environmental health, and ensuring the sustainability of communities and ecosystems in urban regions. We encourage waste diversion and the clustering of local administrations and municipalities to establish centralized MSW disposal facilities with integrated concept of appropriate technologies, hence reducing the disposal cost and enhancing the potential to maximize the useable waste materials as well as produce energy as a by-product.

Oxylus Integrated MSW Management Program is a comprehensive approach to environmental and resource management, which is derived from applying the concept of sustainable development to deal with society’s waste in an environmentally and economically sustainable way.

Oxylus integrated MSW management system comprises of five main processes resulting in zero/inert waste:

1- Waste Segregation

Before all processes, the waste must be collected and sorted. Waste segregation is an important precursor to efficiently perform the remaining processes of our integrated approach.

2- Material Recovery and Recycling

This process entails the recovery of recyclable materials, mainly paper, plastics, rubber, glass, and metals that require access to reprocessing facilities. It also requires adequate sorting to achieve optimum recovery and maximize recycling.

3- Biological Treatment of Organic Waste

Depending on the type of organic waste and the operating conditions, some organic wastes can be composted to produce fertilizers (Aerobic process); whereas the anaerobic digestion method  (Anaerobic process) can be used to transform other organic waste into liquid fertilizers. An advantage of the anaerobic process is the production of Methane, which is a by-product of the anaerobic digestion that can be used to produce energy.

4- Thermal Destruction and Energy Recovery

Thermal destruction focuses on the substantial reduction of the volume of wastes destined for disposal in the landfill. This process can be viewed as a waste valorization method by means of heat recovery from pyro-gas that can be utilized for energy production. The only remaining product is ash residue, which is easily disposed off in the landfill. By doing so, the area of landfill can be drastically reduced.

5- Landfill of Final Inert Waste

The landfill is still the final destination of the last remaining product of any MSW management method. Instead of regular waste to be filled, the remaining product of MSW is only inert waste, which produces no odor and requires minimal space compared to the original volume (90% volume reduction). Thus, the lifetime of landfill can be extended and the issues of methane and the contamination of surface and ground water can be drastically reduced.

Healthcare is one the most regulated industries in our country today. Staying in compliance with federal, state, and local regulations can be a challenge. Our healthcare industry experts create affordable and safe customized programs to collect and dispose of your medical, solid, and hazardous waste. Oxylus utilizes best practices to help organizations adopt sustainable strategies that will achieve cost savings while being in compliance with safety and environmental regulations and to achieve sustainability goals that are essential to our planet.

A good medical waste minimization program can help reduce total waste costs. We can help develop and execute such programs designed to meet your specific needs and assist in streamlining your operations to minimize waste and reduce cost.

Oxylus provides medical waste treatment facilities that are cost effective and environmentally sensitive. These facilities provide an environmentally safe transfer and treatment operation for the disposal of medical waste generated by all types of medical facilities. These treatment operations are capable of treating the full Regulated Medical Waste stream, which includes Regulated Medical Waste, Chemotherapy Waste, Pharmacy Waste, and Pathology Waste.

Furthermore, these treatment facilities are capable of processing and treating any medical facility’s solid waste stream that has been classified as medical waste (including the destruction of confidential documents).

Oxylus provides for the transfer of waste ownership and liability from the Customer to Oxylus at the point of waste acceptance by Oxylus. Customers are issued insurance certificates showing the customer as an additional insured on the Oxylus Liability Insurance Policies.

Oxylus provides reusable bulk waste container systems that include various types and sizes of containers (i.e. reusable large mobile (wheeled) bulk waste containers and reusable (multi-waste type) single deposit containers); disposable or reusable sharps container systems; all systems designed to reduce waste handling and related disposal costs.

Oxylus provides for the weighing and labeling of the various types of medical waste in compliance with Federal and State requirements regarding the generation and transport of regulated medical waste.

Oxylus provides cloud based waste tracking and accounting systems that furnish the customer with accurate waste manifesting, treatment certificates, and invoicing documents.

Oxylus provides educational “in service” programs to assist the customer’s employees with the proper management, identification, and handling of medical or hazardous waste.

Oxylus is committed to providing medical waste generators with exceptional service at a reasonable cost through the use of innovative, environmentally safe handling and treatment systems tailored for the customer’s special requirements.

Waste Tires

Americans discard about 290 million tires annually, a bit more than one per person, most of which end up in landfills. The vast quantities of worn-out tires discarded every year represent a tremendous amount of available energy. This potential is wasted when the tires are landfilled, taking up valuable space and posing environmental concerns. For instance, a typical tire contains as many BTU of energy as 2.5 gallons of gasoline. As an alternative, in an effort to use these resources, Oxylus converts scrap tires to energy sources through its tire pyrolysis process system.

Depending on the market, the tire oil can be used for several products. It can be refined to produce heating fuel and base lube oil stocks the same way that waste oils are now being recycled. The remaining components can be used for asphalt or if other options are not economical, the bulk of the tire oil can be turned directly into asphalt.

Our recycling technology is based on the implementation of Oxylus pyrolysis process system on waste tires. The optimum phase durations, temperatures, pressures, vacuum levels, amount of waste tire to be processed, and other side factors are a result of years of experience, research, and laboratory applications.

Pyrolysis process is the thermal decomposition of organic materials in an oxygen-free environment and is an endothermic reaction. It requires an input of heat energy, pressure and pre-determined temperature depending on the organic material to be pyrolized. In tire pyrolysis, Fuel Oil, Carbon Black, Steel, and Gas are obtained through well-established thermal-chemical reactions.