BMI Stapylton Landfill Gas Project

The BMI Stapylton Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas capture operation located in Stapylton, Queensland, approximately 40 kilometers southeast of Brisbane and 45 kilometers northwest of the Gold Coast. Registered in August 2022, the project is situated within the BMI Resource Recovery precinct, a significant waste management facility in the Brisbane-Gold Coast industrial corridor. While the specific project area is defined by the landfill footprint, the surrounding region is characterized by a mix of industrial zones, quarries, and remnant semi-rural land used for grazing and cane farming.

Operating under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative, Landfill Gas) Methodology Determination 2015, the project involves the installation of a new gas collection system to extract methane generated by decomposing organic waste. This captured gas is then combusted, either through flaring or electricity generation, converting potent methane into carbon dioxide, thereby significantly reducing its global warming potential. The project addresses emissions from both "legacy" waste (deposited before the scheme's baselines) and "non-legacy" waste.

The Stapylton region experiences a subtropical climate with summer-dominant rainfall, averaging over 1,000mm annually. The local terrain typically features alluvial and clay-based soils (often Vertosols or Dermosols), which are characteristic of the low-lying coastal plains between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. The project proponent, LMS Energy, is Australia's largest landfill biogas company and operates this system on behalf of the site owner, the BMI Group, which manages multiple resource recovery facilities across South East Queensland.