MikeH-SRS
Making the in-between green.
Mike Haywood is a consultant and practitioner in resource efficiency and resource recovery, helping companies, regulators and the wider recycling industry create less waste for landfill.
Eucalyptus regrowth just three months after the December 2019 fires — March 2020.
The practice
Hands on, not desk bound.
Mike Haywood's Sustainable Resource Solutions Pty Ltd is an independent consultancy working across all aspects of secondary resource management — municipal, construction and demolition, and commercial and industrial waste streams.
Mike gets a bit dirty to understand how a company is actually running, what its feedstocks are, and how to help it educate customers about the way material is presented. The advice that follows is grounded in the plant, not the boardroom.
Capabilities
EPA licensing & environment management plans
Working with approved planners and planning teams to write environmental management plans that ensure the outcome meets customer requirements once approved or implemented.
Resource recovery
Lifting recovery rates from MSW, construction and demolition, and commercial and industrial waste streams, by developing ongoing long-term processes and material specifications creating an investable or fundable project.
Alternative fuels
Developing processes that turn residual waste streams into fuels that reliably meet a consistent approved specification for use as fuel either for energy generation or in cement kilns.
Plant & project delivery
Tendering and project managing the installation of recycling plant and equipment, from inductions through commissioning and into ongoing operational support — ensuring the plant works, staff are trained to operate it safely, and outputs are maximised for landfill minimisation, next-best-use products or market sale.
Mike says…
When the recycling industry can do no more with a discarded material to produce a product to specification suitable for use with a market today, then and only then does it become a waste product ready for landfill.
We do not own our resources — we are the custodians of them for today. They belong just as much to future generations as they do to us. What will those future generations say about our stewardship?
“When is a waste no longer a waste?” is a question that will always be debated, because it is not the correct question. The question should be: when does it become a waste? The answer is when the resource recovery industry has processed it through a rigorous resource recovery activity, and the residual material has no value.
Want more value out of your waste stream?
Whether it's an EPA licence application, a recovery rate that has stalled or a fuel product that needs to hit specification — get in touch.