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Dalton Trucking Inc. Bulk Division
DTI Helps Turn Waste into Fuel  
The byproduct of modern sewerage treatment plants is known as biosolids. The material has been treated thoroughly and leaves the plant for disposal no more harmful than mud. What should be done with biosolids? Should we landfill it? Apply it on our farmland as fertilizer? (Frequently the material you buy at the nursery is biosolids.) Close our eyes and hope it disappears? Pump it miles out into our oceans?

Mitsubishi Cement has found a great use for it. They inject it into their cement kilns and use it as a additive to reduce air pollutants. The material is re-slurried and injected through nozzles into the kilns. The material has two advantages: its high BTU value and the ammonia in the biosolids neutralizes the nitrogen oxide produced during combustion. This serves to reduce NOx emissions. This system works so well that Mitsubishi Cement, located in Lucerne Valley, has patented the process. Daltons' truck and pups, set-up with special manual gate locks and rollover tarps, dump directly into the storage pit. While most of the biosolids goes for farmland use, a limited amount is used as fuel/air cleanser. For the past three years, Dalton has been hauling this unique material to various users, 7 days per week. You can't find a more consistent flow of material than biosolids!

Dalton requires its Drivers to wash out their trucks and trailers after dumping the biosolids.

Note the washout safety platform being used by this driver was initially designed and installed by DTI. If the trucks and trailers were not washed out on a regular basis, material would become lodged in the cracks of the bed and could contaminate other products. The biosolids could also dry on the sides of the unit adding excess weight.

In the event that you may be interested in getting a proposal from Dalton for an environmentally sensitive haul, please contact Richard Abernathy at 1-800-333-2400 x1552
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