June 9th, 2010 by waster
Final storage quality is used to imply an “environmentally sound flux/load for short, medium and long term periods” but what will govern the final decision, and what can we do to limit greenhouse gas emissions actively and passively.
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September 11th, 2009 by waster
SITA UK has, on September 2 revealed that it plans to lodge an appeal later this month against Cornwall county council’s March 2009 decision to refuse its planning application to build a £100 million, 240,000 tonne-a-year capacity energy-from-waste facility near St Dennis. The company said that it had received written consent from the council to [...]
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July 12th, 2009 by waster
Waste Management Inc. Discusses World’s Largest Landfill Gas To Fuel Plant As start-up on the world’s largest plant to convert landfill gas into clean vehicle fuel nears completion, joint venture partners Linde North America and Waste Management have begun to share details of the project. The companies are installing systems at WM’s Altamont Landfill near [...]
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October 21st, 2008 by waster
London’s First Biogas Fueling Station Installed at London Borough of Camden’s York Way Depot LONDON, October 20 /PRNewswire/ — Gasrec Commercial Trial With Veolia and Iveco Enters Next Phase In August, Gasrec, the UK’s first commercial producer of liquid biomethane fuel, Veolia Environmental Services, the UK’s largest waste management company, and full range commercial vehicle [...]
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February 24th, 2008 by waster
Wisconsin State Journal – Landfill will get longer life; bioreactor planned - by Ron Seely With space left for just six years worth of garbage in the Dane County Landfill, officials are on the verge of re-engineering the 76-acre site to install a controversial system that will hasten the decomposition of waste and extend the operation [...]
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January 13th, 2008 by waster
Veolia Environmental Services and Beacon Landfill Gas Holdings Wins National EPA Award BusinessWire, Comtex KERSEY, Pa., Jan 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Veolia Environmental Services (Veolia ES) is pleased to announce that the high Btu landfill gas project installed on its Greentree Landfill was chosen as the Environmental Protection Agency’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program (EPA [...]
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November 26th, 2007 by waster
Casella Waste Systems, Inc., the only solid waste and recycling services company in the American nation who is a member of Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Climate Leaders Program, announced today it has received EPA approval for its greenhouse gas reduction goal. Casella set an aggressive companywide greenhouse gas emissions reduction target at ten percent over seven [...]
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October 19th, 2007 by waster
The US is getting greener? – The Waster. A landfill gas-to-energy project in Baltimore County is receiving the first tax credit available through the Maryland Clean Energy Production Tax Credit Program. The project developed by Pepco Energy Services, at Baltimore County´s Eastern landfill, was awarded a $770,661 tax credit under the program that began last [...]
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September 26th, 2007 by waster
A new public-private partnership will allow methane gas generated at a closed Waste Management Inc. landfill in Georgia, US, to provide natural gas to customers in the area. Jacoby Energy Development Inc. says it has an agreement with Waste Management, DeKalb County and Atlanta Gas Light Co. to recover and clean methane from Live Oak [...]
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August 11th, 2007 by waster
Landfill gas could help Rockingham earn $1 million per year (The Associated Press) WENTWORTH, N.C. Rockingham County could generate $1 million annually by capturing the methane gas emitting from its unused landfills, according to a study produced for county commissioners. Energy researchers from Appalachian State University found that the county, a mostly rural area bordering [...]
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