9/28/2020

1

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 1

Introduction of NewDepackaging Facility

September 2020

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 2

Who We Are

• Founded in Rutland Vermont in 1975 with one truck

• Still headquartered in Rutland Vermont to this day

• 2,500 employees serving over 200,000 commercial customers and 550,000 household

• Owner/Operator of Long Trail Compost Facility (Bennington VT) & Hawk Ridge Compost Facility (ME)

• Interest stake in Anaerobic Digestion Facilities in New England.

• Operator of the CSWD’s MRF for 24 years

• Vertically integrated collection, transfer, disposal, recycling, composting and anaerobic digestion operations

• Provide professional resource management services to over 10,000 business locations in over 45 states

• Recover over 800,000 tons of recycling and over 450,000 tons of organics for beneficial use each year

• Since 2005, cut companywide carbon emissions by 50%

1

2

9/28/2020

2

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 3

Background

With the onset of the Universal Recycling Law, Casella sought to plan, develop and deploy a depackaging facility that would meet Vermont’s sustainability goals.

• Environmental sustainability – reduced embedded carbon footprint resulting from:

• Proximity to transfer station and digester outlet by looking at the entire embedded carbon footprint of any of our tasks.

• Backhauling of gray water from the digester to mix with food waste to create slurry, reducing water consumption and hauling.

• Economic sustainability – to ensure long-term economic viability, the facility is designed to handle growing volumes as needed:

• Currently the building is 6,045 sf with the land area to expand as the market conditions allow.

• Thor T42 can handle up to 160 tons per 8 hour shift.

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 4

State of the Art Solutions

• Track record providing stating of the art environmental technology starting with the first recycling facility in Vermont in the late seventies.

• Proposed depack facility represents some of the latest innovations in recycling and sustainable recovery of packaged products.

• Materials will be separated mechanically to achieve legal compliance, reduce labor, and disposal costs at the landfill.

• Material is processed locally, not trucked to the landfill thus saving fuel.

• Packaging can be recycled, incoming food waste is graded for quality and either made into animal feed or feedstock for anerobic digestion, then returned to the land resulting in a closed loop process.

• After the initial operating trials we will evaluate the expansion options with third party partners, similar to standard practice at our recycling MRF’s and disposal facilities

3

4

9/28/2020

3

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 5

Material Sustainability: Fostering Highest and Best Use of Processed Materials

• Flexibility to process material for a variety of end uses.• Examples –

• Dry material for composting, clean food for animal feed, special high BOD blend for anerobic digestion.

• By processing material in batches we can also better control recycling options for packaging.

• Basis for baler in the operation (see plan)

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 6

Site Plan

5

6

9/28/2020

4

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 7

Operational Overview

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 8

Thor

7

8

9/28/2020

5

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 9

Construction Progress

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 10

Facility Overview

• Tipping Floor bunkers for Organic materials

• Cross Dock for additional storage

• Scott Turbo Thor Capacity 25 tons per hour

• Slurry capacity- onsite tanks, with the ability to add tanker trailers and roll off tank skids

• Baler for recyclable products

• Ability to scale to over 50,000 tons

• Anticipated opening of January 2021

9

10

9/28/2020

6

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 11

Liquid Slurry Management

Liquid slurry will be remediated by PurposeEnergy, Inc.

• PurposeEnergy has five food waste anaerobic digester facilities in the State of Vermont that are operating or under development

• Organic substrates are biologically converted to biogas and used to produce renewable electricity

• Electricity is delivered to the grid pursuant to net metering rules and Standard Offer contracts

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 12

Strategic Partnership Considerations

• Partnerships with customers, the State and CSWD are key to the success of this facility.

• Long term environmental sustainability relies on private investment in infrastructure such as this to achieve Universal Recycling Law goals.

• Economy of scale limitations resulting from low population in Vermont.

• Viability of existing infrastructure investment can and will be influenced by the addition of redundancy, as has been the case with some anaerobic digestion developments in the state to date.

• We will carefully evaluate and consider participating on any and all depackagingRFP/RFQ’s that may come out in the future.

11

12

9/28/2020

7

RECYCLING • SOLUTIONS • ORGANICS • COLLECTION • ENERGY • LANDFILLS casella.com • 13

To learn more, please visit:

casella.com

Thank you!

13