SMRC Waste Composting Facility

SMRC Waste Composting Facility is an Alternative Waste Treatment project located at Canning Vale, approximately 15km south of the Perth central business district in Western Australia. It was registered in May 2013 and operates within the 12-hectare Regional Resource Recovery Centre. The surrounding Canning Vale area is a major industrial and commercial precinct set within Perth's broader urban landscape. The local environment features a Mediterranean climate with moderate winter rainfall, and the region is situated on the Swan Coastal Plain, which is naturally characterised by deep sandy soils.

Alternative Waste Treatment projects involve diverting mixed solid waste away from traditional landfills to a purpose-built facility where it is processed into useful resources like compost, engineered fuel, or biogas. This methodology earns carbon credits by preventing organic waste from decomposing anaerobically in landfills, which actively avoids the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

For this specific project, municipal household waste is source-separated and processed using an enclosed aerobic composting technology. The facility creates a compost product that is subsequently used to put nutrients back into local soils for crops, pastures, parks, and gardens. Originally registered under an earlier revoked Carbon Farming Initiative method, the project successfully transitioned to the 2015 Alternative Waste Treatment methodology determination. Operated jointly by the Resource Recovery Group (formerly the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council) and Corporate Carbon Advisory, the project has been highly productive. It completed a government Carbon Abatement Contract for the fixed delivery of 220,000 ACCUs in April 2020 and has historically generated well over 150,000 ACCUs to supply both compliance and voluntary carbon markets.