Waste recycling company AneaCo has started the wet commissioning phase at its DiCOM facility in Shenton Park following approval from the state government.
The company announced today the Department of Conservation and Environment issued it with a licence to operate, allowing municipal solid waste to be fed into the facility.
The municipal solid waste is collected during normal operations in the surrounding suburbs by the WMRC collection fleet.
Wet commissioning involves fully testing the WMRC Stage 1 installation prior to performance testing. MSW will pass through the front end sorting circuit (trammel and conveyors) and into the DiCOM bioconversion vessel where aerobic composting and anaerobic digestion will take place.
All of this will be controlled by the advanced process control system.
"Feeding MSW into the plant is another exciting milestone as it means we are poised to demonstrate the capability of this technology at commercial scale," managing director Tom Rudas said.
"Further, in a few months we will have the results of the first performance trials.
"Success with these trials will be a defining moment for AnaeCo as we move forward from being a developer of breakthrough technology to becoming a key player in the future of waste management in Australia, and internationally."
Last week, AnaeCo announced it had raised $1.8 million through a share placement.
Shares in AnaeCo were unchanged at 13 cents at 12:30 AEDT.