Purpose-built to suit Australian conditions, the REMONDIS Organic Resource Recovery Facility (ORRF) provides a fully-controlled processing solution that enables over 43% (potentially up to 80%) of the total waste stream to be efficiently diverted from landfill.

The REMONDIS ORRF brings together a range of ‘tried and tested’ sustainable processing technologies in one centralised plant which has been purpose designed and built to meet Australian waste management needs. The REMONDIS ORRF has fast gained a reputation as one of the most effective and efficient methods of reducing waste-to-landfill. Operating in Australia since 2001, this technology is delivering outstanding products to the local horticultural and agricultural markets.

Constructed for Hastings Council on the New South Wales mid-north coast, the first Australian REMONDIS ORRF is located at the new Cairncross Waste Management Centre and Landfill, some 15 kilometres to the north of Port Macquarie. Forming the major component of Hastings Council's plan to completely eliminate the disposal of waste-to-landfill by 2020, the Cairncross facility has been designed with a processing capacity of a minumum of 40,000 tonnes of green organics and putrescible waste per year.

Effectively designed as two plants in one, the first half of the REMONDIS ORRF processes green organics, together with bio-solids from the Council's nearby Sewage Treatment Plant, into high quality compost end products. The second half of the plant separates and processes mixed solid waste into two streams - namely a high calorific value raw material for REMONDIS' proprietary Fuel Substitute Generation™ (FSG™) process, and a biologically stabilised residual organic fraction which will in future be used as daily cover at the nearby Cairncross Landfill.