Waste Management Will Manage and Market Fly Ash
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2013--
Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) today announced that its Energy
Services division has been awarded a contract to provide coal combustion
product marketing and onsite landfill management services to American
Electric Power (AEP) at three of its power plants in the Texas-Oklahoma
region. Under the contract, Waste Management’s FlyAshDirect division
will market fly ash, a substance generated during the combustion of
coal, for reuse.
“We are pleased to provide this service to AEP,” said Harry Lamberton,
vice president of Waste Management’s Energy Services division. “With 150
million tons of fly ash produced a year by the electric utility
industry, we are gratified to play a part in its reuse.”
Lamberton said the fly ash is sold to the construction industry, which
mostly uses the material in concrete. If the ash is not reused, it is
sent to landfills for disposal.
Waste Management will sell the fly ash from power plants located in Mt.
Pleasant and Vernon, Texas, and Oologah, Okla., which, together, produce
roughly 700 thousand tons of coal combustion products, the materials
produced primarily from the combustion of coal in coal-fired power
plants.
Lamberton said FlyAshDirect will also provide landfill management work
for the power plants.
FlyAshDirect is a group in Waste Management’s Energy Services division.
The company creates by-product utilization opportunities for the power
generation industry by developing markets for fly ash resources. It has
a patented system known as CarbonBlocker™, which treats fly ash to
prepare it for marketing.
AEP Texas is part of the American Electric Power system, one of the
largest electric utilities in the United States, delivering electricity
to more than 5 million customers in 11 states. AEP's headquarters are in
Columbus, Ohio. For more information about AEP, see the corporate web
site, AEP.com.
ABOUT WASTE MANAGEMENT
Waste Management, based in Houston, Texas, is the leading provider of
comprehensive waste management services in North America. Our
subsidiaries provide collection, transfer, recycling and resource
recovery, and disposal services. We are the largest residential recycler
and also a leading developer, operator and owner of waste-to-energy and
landfill-gas-to-energy facilities in the United States. Our customers
include residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers
throughout North America. To learn more visit www.wm.com.
Source: Waste Management, Inc.
Waste Management, Inc.
Jennifer Andrews, 619-890-4698
jandrews@wm.com