“In a climate where fewer and fewer landfills are being approved, this technology opens up the opportunity to revitalise dormant assets or extend the life of assets heading towards closure.”
“In a climate where fewer and fewer landfills are being approved, this technology opens up the opportunity to revitalise dormant assets or extend the life of assets heading towards closure.”
Cleanaway’s Erskine Park Landfill recently won the Outstanding Innovation, Project or Facility award at the 2023 Australian Landfill and Transfer Station Awards for its Mechanically Stabilised Earth (MSE) wall project.
The MSE wall at Erskine Park Landfill is the largest landfill application of mechanically stabilised earth technology in Australia. At 900m long and over 16.5m high, it has raised the bar for landfill engineering.
As the current landfill fence line was fixed, the MSE wall technology allowed our team to vertically expand the landfills available airspace. The MSE wall project is in line with our Blueprint 2030 strategy, Blueprint 4 – Landfill Optimisation, which focuses on investing in new capacity to ensure that there is sufficient airspace at our existing landfill operations.
By building the MSE wall, we have unlocked 430,000 cubic metres of airspace that was previously not available. This extends the operational life of Erskine Park Landfill by over three years and alleviates some of the pressure on Sydney’s landfill network.
“We have set a precedent for the Australian landfill industry,” says Landfill Manager Daniel Wright.
“In a climate where fewer and fewer landfills are being approved, this technology opens up the opportunity to revitalise dormant assets or extend the life of assets heading towards closure.”
Erskine Park Landfill will continue servicing customers in Western Sydney until 2025. After this point, the Engineering team will install an engineered final cap to safely and compliantly transition the site into post closure.
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