Synterra converts waste streams into baseload energy, fuels, and valuable commodities, transforming disposal liabilities into circular-economy infrastructure for cities, ports, utilities, and industry.
Every community produces it. Almost none can escape it. Landfills fill, costs climb, and mandates tighten.
Disposal capacity is shrinking across North America while waste volumes keep rising, pushing haul distances and tipping costs higher every year.
Decomposing landfill waste emits methane, roughly 80x the near-term warming power of CO₂. Diversion is now a climate mandate, not a preference.
Millions of scrap tires are stockpiled or buried every year, creating a fire hazard, a health risk, and an enormous store of untapped energy.
Cities, ports, and industrial sites face rising disposal costs and aggressive waste-diversion targets with few real alternatives.
Every ton buried is energy wasted, and a liability that compounds.
Synterra's process is feedstock-flexible: if it contains hydrocarbons, it's fuel. One platform converts the waste streams cities, ports, hospitals, and industry already produce, with no exotic supply chain required.
Plus other hydrocarbon-based waste streams. Medical waste processed where permitted by local regulation.
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Shredded feedstock enters a sealed, oxygen-starved chamber: tires, municipal waste, plastics, coal, biomass, sludge, even medical waste. This is gasification, not incineration. Without oxygen, nothing combusts.
Intense heat and pressure vaporize the hydrocarbons. Long molecular chains crack apart as rubber, plastic, and organic matter reduce to their elemental building blocks.
Carbon and hydrogen reassemble as synthesis gas, CO + H₂, the versatile energy carrier at the heart of the process.
The syngas condenses: 68% becomes Green Bio Fuel, 32% non-condensable gas drives on-site power generation. Solids exit as carbon black, steel, and recovered metals.
What leaves a Synterra plant is useful, not landfilled. Every stream feeds the circular economy.
Continuous baseload power from non-condensable gas, 24/7, grid-connected or behind the meter.
68% of condensed syngas yields Green Bio Fuel for maritime, boilers, and heavy equipment.
Clean synthesis gas, a flexible fuel for generation or upgrading into other products.
Recovered from tires, a core industrial commodity for new rubber, inks, and coatings.
Tire belts and MSW metals recovered clean and returned to the supply chain.
A pathway to H₂ production from syngas as regional hydrogen demand scales.
Landfill diversion and methane avoidance generate carbon and energy attribute credits.
Operational metrics for a single tire-fed gasification unit.
of scrap tires processed, around the clock.
tires diverted from landfill each year, 60,500 tons annually.
of Green Bio Fuel recovered, over 4.1 million gallons per year.
of continuous generation, ~108,000 MWh per year, enough for roughly 10,000 homes.
of carbon black recovered annually, plus 9,072 tons of high-tensile steel.
generated from a single ton of tanker sludge, alongside 1,360 lbs of Green Bio Fuel.
Figures from Synterra / Carson Solutions engineering fact sheets. Unit-level projections; site outputs vary by feedstock and configuration.
Solar and wind are essential, but intermittent. Gasification runs day and night, in any weather, on fuel society pays to get rid of. Capacity factor:
| Solar | Wind | Synterra | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generates at night / calm weather | No | No | Yes |
| Land footprint | Acres of panels | Turbine fields | Compact modular plant |
| Eliminates waste & landfill methane | No | No | Yes |
| Recovers commodities (steel, carbon black) | No | No | Yes |
| Pairs with battery storage (BESS) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Solar and wind harvest energy. Synterra harvests energy, and eliminates a liability.
A full gasification campus on a compact industrial footprint. Scroll to fly over the systems.
Compact plants sited at ports, industrial parks, and transfer stations. Capacity scales by adding units: start focused, grow with the waste stream.
Battery energy storage (BESS) pairs with baseload generation for peak shaving, grid services, and true energy resilience.
A sealed, patent-pending process with a dedicated carbon cleanup system, designed for net-zero process emissions.
Develop-own-operate, public-private partnerships, or co-development with ports, utilities, and municipalities.
Cities · Ports · Utilities · Industrial Operators. If you have a waste stream, you have a power plant waiting to happen.