Reporoa Organics Processing Facility
New Zealand's first large-scale food waste-to-bioenergy facility at Reporoa, in the central North Island, is now operational!
The flagship facility turns 75,000 tonnes of organic waste, from businesses and kerbside food scrap collections throughout the North Island, into sustainable, renewable energy products.
The facility uses anaerobic digestion - a technology already used successfully overseas - to create renewable energy (electricity, heat and biogas) as well as Fertify Regenerative Fertiliser. Fertify is applied to farmland around the district as a renewable alternative, closing the food and energy loop by returning nutrients from our food back into our soils.
A project to build a gas upgrading plant is also underway with Clarus (formerly FirstGas). This will enable the biogas to be refined and upgraded into renewable gas which can be injected directly into the national gas grid, helping to decarbonise our homes and businesses.
