Conference: Generating Energy from Residual Waste

* Policies   * Treatments   *Technologies Thursday 11 October 2007   SAS Radisson Hotel, Dublin Accessible through a range of treatments and technologies, residual waste – particularly the biodegradable element of it – can be a valuable, low-carbon, energy source. This top-level conference considers the energy potential of Ireland’s residual waste – that which is left [...]

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NCE: Peterborough City Council Will Announce New Approach to Financing Waste

We are told (New Civil Engineer 24 may 2007) that Peterborough City Council has plans to announce a new approach to financing which it has devised with the Collaborative Working Centre. This will include financing models for a new £56 million energy from waste (EfW) incinerator. It appears that two facilities are to be built [...]

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MEPs Ban Landfilling of All Recyclable Waste by 2020

With all the recent developments in Resource Management in the past few weeks the Wastersblog nearly missed this one. The Waster is reliably informed that last week the European Parliament voted to stop all landfilling of paper, glass, textiles, plastic and metal by 2015, and also by 2020 no recyclable waste will be sent to landfill [...]

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Canada Lagging Behind on Energy From Waste Technologies

Here is a News item from Canada:-     ‘Proven technology turns waste into valuable resource for electricity production’.     TORONTO, Jan. 31 /CNW/ – A leading operator of Energy From Waste (EFW) facilities says Canada is missing out on the untapped value of EFW technologies, which uses residential and commercial waste to generate electricity and [...]

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Incineration Efficiency Warning Ahead of EU Waste Debate

Local authorities planning to use incinerators to divert waste away from landfill should check that proposals meet forthcoming EU energy efficiency criteria. The warning came ahead of next week’s European Parliament vote in Strasbourg, on a Directive that could shape the next 50 years of EU policy on waste management (see letsrecycle.com story).  If you [...]

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