Gympie Landfill Gas Project

Gympie Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas project located at the Bonnick Road waste management facility in Gympie, approximately 160km north of Brisbane in Queensland. It was registered in November 2017 and operates over an unknown area size within the local council's active waste site.

Landfill gas projects involve installing a gas collection system to capture and combust methane generated at the landfill from legacy and non-legacy waste. The captured biogas is typically combusted using an enclosed flare or electricity generator, which significantly reduces its global warming potential by converting the methane into less harmful carbon dioxide.

The Gympie region is known for dairy farming, beef cattle grazing, forestry operations, and horticulture. The area features a subtropical climate with high summer rainfall, while soils generally consist of fertile alluvial types near the Mary River and podzolic or clay loams in the surrounding hills.

This project was set up in partnership with the Gympie Regional Council to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions at no direct cost to ratepayers. Since its inception in 2018, the project's biogas flare has captured over 9 million cubic metres of biogas and abated more than 90,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, generating over 31,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs). The project updated its methodology to Compilation No. 1 of the 2015 Landfill Gas Determination in May 2023, and its initial Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC495317), secured in December 2017, was successfully completed in August 2026.