The sterecycle® process results in the following sterile products :

1. Non-organics - clean with labels / foodstuffs etc removed

• aluminium cans
• steel cans
• glass
• plastics

2. Organic biomass fibre - this clean material has many possible uses.

Organic Fibre

After stages 1 and 2, the organic fibre can be used as a soil conditioner. Alternatively, sterefibre® can be further used or processed in several alternative ways:

Green Energy
The fibre is a clean biomass fuel and can be used to produce energy and/or heat. The biomass fibre is an ideal feedstock since it is a homogenous material that can be efficiently fed into a power plant. Unlike “mass burn incineration”, the energy is derived purely from renewable sources so that it will qualify for "green energy certificates" (Renewable Obligation Certificates).

Paper Pulp Recovery
Passing the fibre through a washing plant will seperate out the long fibres, 60%, that can be sold to the paper industry as a high quality paper pulp. The remaining short fibres, 40%, can be used in other processes described here.

Anaerobic Digestion
The fibre can also be passed through an Anaerobic Digester to produce both a clean biogas for green energy generation and a soil conditioner. The fibre is an ideal feedstock for Anaerobic Digestion since it is a homogenous material unlike the original complex untreated waste.

Construction Products
The fibre can be used for making a multitude of construction products that use cellulose based materials (eg. fibre board, tiles)