UK: Refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and solid recovered fuel (SRF) exports from the UK were 1.6Mt in the financial year which ended on 31 March 2022, down by 2.3% year-on-year from 2021 financial year levels. Waste management consultant Footprint Services reported that March 2022 RDF and SRF exports were 136,000t, down by 23% year-on-year from 176,000t in March 2021. Geminor exported 29,200t of RDF and SRF during the month, constituting a 22% market share. Its full-year exports in the 2022 financial year were 280,000t.

Geminor UK country manager James Maiden forecast that the decline in UK RDF and SRF exports is beginning to level off at a volume between 1Mt/yr and 1.5Mt/yr from the 2023 financial year.

Argentina: Holcim Argentina achieved 8.4% alternative fuel (AF) substitution in its cement production in its cement production in 2021. That year, it reduced its CO2 emissions per tonne of cementitious material by 4.2% compared to 2017, to 505kg/t from 527kg/t.

Waste management partner Geocycle processed 140,000t of waste in 2021, up by 20% from 2020 levels. This included 4000t of waste tyres, which alone eliminated 2300t of CO₂ emissions. Geocycle inaugurated Argentina’s first municipal solid waste (MSW) classification facility in Córdoba in November 2021.

India: Coimbatore Municipal City Corporation says that it has reached a rate of 54,800t/yr in refuse derived fuel (RDF) deliveries to cement plants in Tamil Nadu's Ariyalur District. The Indian Express newspaper has reported that the corporation collects 1000t/day of waste, from which its sorts 150t/day of non-biodegradable waste into RDF. It has launched landfill mining at a 26.7ha tip in Vellalore, where it expects to extract several tens of thousands of tonnes more of non-biodegradable waste.

Australia: Adbri is targeting 40% refuse derived fuel (RDF) substitution in cement production at its Birkenhead, South Australia, cement plant in 2022. By 2024, it aims to further increase RDF use to 50%. The plant used 35% RDF in its production in 2021.

Adbri says that it is Australia's only cement producer not to use coal, relying instead on a combination of RDF and gas.

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