Aries Taunton Biosolids Gasification Facility Taunton, Massachusetts
Aries Taunton Biosolids
Bringing Safe and Sustainable Biosolids Disposal to New England
Project Snapshot
- State of the art, patented fluidized bed facility located at the City of Taunton, Massachusetts Sanitary Landfill
- Processing 470 tons per day of biosolids
- Producing 25 tons of beneficial biochar daily
- Closed-loop system requires no fossil fuels during routine operations
- Permitting underway
Local Benefits
- Diverts 160,000 tons of biosolids from landfills and incinerators annually
- Cost competitive option for biosolids disposal in southern New England area
- System is carbon negative and captures methane (with a global warming impact 23 times greater than CO2) that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere
- Reduced Greenhouse Gases due to reduction in biosolids trucking to distant disposal sites
- Aries’ Build-Own-Operate model provides no financial risk to City of Taunton
- Host Community Benefits to City of Taunton including low cost biosolids disposal
