'Buderim Landfill Gas Project

Buderim Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas project located at Buderim on the Sunshine Coast, approximately 90km north of Brisbane in Queensland. It was registered in August 2012 and covers the footprint of the local municipal waste facility at Syd Lingard Drive.

Landfill gas projects involve installing or upgrading a gas collection system to capture methane emissions from decomposing organic waste. Under the standard requirements of the method, the captured gas from both legacy and non-legacy waste must be combusted, either through flaring or power generation. This process generates carbon credits by converting highly potent methane gas into less harmful carbon dioxide, thereby mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

The surrounding Sunshine Coast region is characterised by growing urban residential development alongside agricultural land uses such as horticulture, macadamia farming, and forestry operations. The local environment features a humid subtropical climate with relatively high rainfall, especially during the summer and early autumn months. Soils in the coastal and Buderim regions are predominantly rich, deep red volcanic (basalt) soils, known as Ferrosols and Dermosols, as well as coastal clays.

This project transitioned from a revoked Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method and continues to capture gas generated at the landfill. Managed by the project proponent, LMS Energy Pty Ltd, the project was successfully contracted in April 2015, and this specific contract (CAC164941) has now been completed. The initiative forms an important part of the local government's broader strategy to transition to a circular economy, complementing other renewable bioenergy facilities across the Sunshine Coast, such as those in Caloundra and Nambour, that also capture landfill biogas to generate clean electricity.