Revitalising Resources
Custom Processing of Industrial and Recycled Material
SXP offers a mobile baling service to the Regions making a neat 2 tonne bale that is ideal for handling, stacking, and transport
Who We Are
Our Mission
To develop better environmental outcomes for the complete life cycles of the byproducts of our modern life style.
Our Vision
To help develop carbon accumulation techniques that will become mainstream with the capacity to avert the worst effects of climate change.
Our Motto
To help develop carbon accumulating strategies contributing to our customers objectives to be good corporate citizens.
Who We Are
Our Mission
To develop better environmental outcomes for the complete life cycles of the byproducts of our modern life style.
Our Vision
To help develop carbon accumulation techniques that will become mainstream with the capacity to avert the worst effects of climate change.
Our Motto
To help develop carbon accumulating strategies contributing to our customers objectives to be good corporate citizens.
Who We Are
Our Mission
To develop better environmental outcomes for the complete life cycles of the byproducts of our modern life style.
Our Vision
To help develop carbon accumulation techniques that will become mainstream with the capacity to avert the worst effects of climate change.
Our Motto
To help develop carbon accumulating strategies contributing to our customers objectives to be good corporate citizens.
Who We Are
Our Mission
To develop better environmental outcomes for the complete life cycles of the byproducts of our modern life style.
Our Vision
To help develop carbon accumulation techniques that will become mainstream with the capacity to avert the worst effects of climate change.
Our Motto
To help develop carbon accumulating strategies contributing to our customers objectives to be good corporate citizens.
Corporate Entities
Southern X Press Limited.
SXP Ltd. offers a mobile baling service to the regions.
X Press Energy Limited.
This company has been set up for the purpose of developing the energy process and delivering scalable systems into the market for mainstream industrial and domestic carbon accumulation.
X Press Environmental Associates Limited.
The team has experience in combustion techniques, soil science, environmental science, dealing with waste biomass and waste water issues.
…… many grasslands, which contain approximately 20 percent of the world’s SOC, have suffered losses because of human activities such as intensive livestock grazing, agricultural activities ……
- For organic carbon to be not prone to atmosphere, it has to be in the ground. Farmers are central to the carbon pathway to the subsoil. They need to be paid for it, not paying for it.
- Grassland Net Primary Productivity (NPP) is the basis for Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) accumulation.
- Forestry SOC accumulation is terminal at plantation harvest. That is an epic SOC accumulation fail.
- The two limitations to grassland NPP are animal production and plant maturity.
- The animals represent a clear conflict of interest to grassland NPP, but the animals are not the villains.
- Without the animals, there will be big buildup of senescent and dead reproductive biomass hazard, suppressing root derived SOC and N accumulation. Remember the Port hills fire, February 2017; Pigeon Valley, February 2019; Lake Ohau, October 2020.
- Grazing the regrowth in a dry trending environment is unavoidable so therefore, a degenerative trend with animals is, inevitable.
- Grassland Zero Grazing with Intensive Defoliation at Stem Elongation (ZG/ID@SE) will capture Above Ground Biomass (AGB) at a point where the Below Ground Biomass (BGB) will drive perennial initiative over reproductive initiative.
- ZG/ID@SE enables sunlight at the base of the plant which is the trigger for new tiller initiation. Increased grassland NPP is the driver of increased rhizosphere zone of activity.
- Root rhizodeposition derived C is up to five times more effective than leaf litter / AGB. (Liang et al., 2017; Sokol et al., 2019). This literature review links studies showing that root derived SOC can account for up to 40% of the carbon fixed by photosynthesis. Another study showed that root exudate could accelerate the rate of breakdown of Soil Organic Matter to plant available N and indirectly, increasing the available P.
We need better techniques for interrupting the AGB carbon pathway to atmosphere and facilitating a better carbon pathway to the subsoil.
Rotating Drum Reactor (RDR) Reactive biomass (Food Waste (FW) / Pyrolytic Carbon (PyC))
- The RDR FW / PyC co compost can supply plant-available nutrient that is plant ready for immediate grass root engagement.
- Food Waste, more specifically, fresh fruit and vegetables and meat waste have highly volatile soft tissue and high moisture content meaning that when the internal available O2 in the composting biomass has been consumed, the aerobic process becomes anaerobic with problematic GHG emissions.
- Anaerobic biomass is phytotoxic. The immature process consumes plant root available O2 and releases root inhibiting products.
- One study found that field windrow compost consumed available O2 within 2 hours of turning which quickly becomes anaerobic and the immature process will persist.
- RDR FW with continuous air supply can complete the thermophilic stage within a week or so instead of many weeks or even months in a field windrow.
- PyC is long term carbon stable with a porous nature that can absorb and release nutrient in a plant-available form and reduce GHG emission.
- Large scale carbonisation of waste biomass to landfill could be reducing landfill emissions instead of producing landfill emissions.
- ZG/ID@SE will create a grassland environment that can better facilitate more immediate root engagement to the nutrient rich FW/PyC application fueling the carbon pathway to the subsoil.
We have good options but environmental drivers are not commercial drivers. If it is not commercially sustainable, it is not commercially survivable.
Currently, there is no linkage between grassland environmental sustainability / atmospheric carbon accumulation and commercial sustainability meaning that there is no commercial driver to promote grassland NPP, driving a carbon pathway to the subsoil.