Sustainability, Climate

A Circular Society helps to mitigate Greenhous Gas

Palmetum Santa Cruz Tenerife
This used to be a municipal rubbish dump - ‘El Palmetum’ in Santa Cruz Tenerife
From dump to botanical garden - An example of sustainability.
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Germany’s contribution to the Climate Change Conference in Egypt: Ambition and solidarity
06/11/2022 - Press release - Climate Change Mitigation
Museo de los Residuos S.O.S. Morelia
Waste Awareness with the Waste Museum in Mexico.
In Morelia, a Mexican city, there is a waste museum dedicated to creating social awareness of waste management.
Experts / Involved Parties
Ph. D. Yoon-Seok Chang
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Hassen Romdhan
Municipal Councilor of Siliana
Dr. Shogo Kumagai
Tohoku University
October 2022 EEC/WTERT Bi-Annual Conference took place in New York
"Sustainable Waste Management: The Forefront of Innovation" was the topic under which Prof. Marco Castaldi's organising team gathered a wide range of presentations from around the world:
Applicability Assessment of a Plasma Melting Process for a Sustainable Fly Ash Recycling System in South Korea Jang-Hyun Kang, Myung Kyu Choi, Young-sam Yoon, Soo-Yeon Hong, Ki-Man Park, and Heung-min Yoo
In this study, municipal solid waste incineration fly ash (MSWIFA) was selected as a research target because it cannot be recycled in a sustainable recycling technology
Handelsblatt, summary and translation by Diana Butron
Summary of the COP 27 from the renowned "Handelsblatt" Newspaper by Silke Kersting
The political haggling at the climate conference was pathetic.
Economic losses from hurricanes cannot be nationally offset under unabated warming Robin Middelanis, Sven N Willner, Christian Otto and Anders Levermann
While the United States were able to balance regional production failures by the original 2017 hurricane, this option becomes less viable under future warming.
WtERT Germany
WTERT Germany in the Baltic States
On behalf of the German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania e.V. and financed by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment WtERT Germany was to prepare a strategy paper for sustainable waste management in the Baltics and organize a workshop with clear recommendations and impulses.
BeWasteWise
How Environmental is Social Value? Panel moderated by Adam Read
With the focus of the resources and waste sector very much on protecting the environment and delivering on decarbonisation, the broader impacts and the benefits these bring to society are often overlooked or underplayed.
International Expert Group on Earth System Preservation - IESP
Memorandum to the IESP Workshop, Sustainability Post Corona
Stronger commitment and responsible dynamics are needed!
Wirtschafts- und Servicebetrieb der Stadt Pirmasens
Future oriented construction with recycled building materials in Pirmasens, Germany.
On the campus of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Pirmasens, a pavilion has been built in the beginning of 2021, using almost exclusively reclaimed building materials. The important innovation is that the reprocessed building materials are used in the same way as the original building material, as in precast concrete elements, for example, and no longer as inferior fillers. One can therefore speak of reuse - as opposed to recycling.
Abfallverwertungsgesellschaft des Landkreises Ludwigsburg mbH
District Heating Supply from Landfill Gas in the Vaihingen District of Gündelbach, Germany
Nowadays everyone is aware of this fact: fossil fuels are limited and must be replaced by regenerative alternatives. This is also the reason for the lighthouse project Gündelbach district heating supply. The district was converted into a bioenergy village in which a large proportion of the inhabitants heat with district heating instead of oil.
WhiteLabel-TandemProjects e.U.
Pre-Treating of non-hazardous Commingled Solid Waste in Mexico
Five steps to produce reliable Alternative Fuels
Waste Recovery Project in Istanbul, Turkey
A new system for waste collection and separation was implemented in Istanbul which should support people in need, clean the streets and gain value out of recyclable materials.
Municipality of Siliana
On its Way to a Cleaner City, Siliana Begins Operation of Tunesia’s First "île de propreté"
Raising awareness for waste separation and environment among the population is the goal of our aesthetic and sheltered mini-recycling centers
Methane Generation and Capture of U.S. Landfills Nickolas J. Themelis and A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas
Analysis of the U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) database of 2,549 MSW (Municipal Solid Waste) landfills showed that there were 1,164 operating landfills in which 348 million short tons (316 million metric tons) of waste were landfilled in 2017.
EUTECH and Bayern International
Senegal Forum & Fair 2021
Bavarian, German & European technology providers are ready to play a key role in shaping sustainable Africa-EU business cooperations to support the objectives of the African Agenda 2063 and Paris Agreement. With a particular focus on Senegal, to catalyse socio-economic development and to grow intercontinental business & trade the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and EU Tech Chamber (EUTECH) are inviting you to the Senegal Business Forum & Fair.
Scientific Truth about Waste to Energy Marco J. Castaldi
Waste-to-Energy is a critical component of the accepted municipal waste management hierarchy and can be a significant tool to avoid landfilling waste after reduction, reuse and recycling. This report summarizes how WTE is a key part of a sustainable waste management solution and a responsible alternative when environmental and human health impacts are considered. Details are provided on the performance of WTE facilities, with a focus on the U.S., and the complementary relationship between recycling and WTE. Representative publications are presented and summarized with citations to allow interested readers to fully explore the extensive body of literature pertaining to performance and operation of WTE.
isotech environmental research and consultancy
Collection and Recycling of Domestic Cooking Oil in Cyprus - InnovOleum: A Driving Force towards a Sustainable Future
Collection and Recycling of Domestic Used Cooking Oil (UCO) through a Social, Reverse Logistics System. InnovOleum which is developed by the Cypriot SME Isotech Ltd and run by the non-governmental organisation, AKTI Project and Research Centre, is a solution to the management of UCO that propagates knowledge, raises awareness on renewable energy from advanced and sustainable biofuel production, and provides an alternative route for UCO that benefits schools and the environment. UCO produced in households is collected and recycled through schools via the InnovOleum social reverse logistic system. InnovOleum began as a pilot in five schools in the Aglantzia area of the capital of Cyprus, Nicosia, in the school year 2012–2013.
Landbell Group
Landbell Group to develop DRS in Kosovo
The German international development agency (GIZ) has awarded a contract to Landbell Group and Black Forest Solutions to advise on the development of a tailormade deposit refund system (DRS) for beverage containers in Kosovo.
Technik ohne Grenzen e.V. / Engineering without Borders
Burning of infectious waste in Nepal - „Technik ohne Grenzen“
The group from Amberg, Germany, called “Technik ohne Grenzen” (“Engineering without borders”) has the main goal of improving living conditions in developing countries. Technical expertise is used to help people in difficult situations. Through education and training courses affected persons shall be equipped with tools to help themselves. Hereby the team follows the motto “as technical as necessary, as easy as possible”. Among a lot of projects in Africa the “TeoG” (Technik ohne Grenzen) is now constructing an incinerator for a hospital in Nepal.
Potential benefits of Waste-to-Energy (WTE) for Turkey Dr. Samet Öztürk, Dr. Thanos Bourtsalas
The only proven alternative of landfilling for the management of the post-recycling waste, that means the waste with no value in the market or recovery potential, is thermal treatment for the recovery of energy (waste-to-energy or WTE).
Reporting of food waste in the EU – Results of current estimates in Germany M. Kranert, P. Fuchs, D. Leverenz; G. Hafner; T. Schmidt and F. Schneider
In February 2019, the German Federal Cabinet adopted the 'National Strategy for Reducing Food Waste', setting a framework for the future direction of this initiative. Among other things, it stipulated that an inter-ministerial "Indicator 12.3 Working Group" should prepare the data bases and methods for nationwide balancing of food waste generation (baseline). Based on existing 2015 data, this status quo analysis will be used as a starting point to agree on milestones for the respective sectors.
Circular economy from an SDG perspective: A multi-stakeholder process for developing policy options Schrack, Daniela; Hansen, Erik G.
Based on a longitudinal case study (the UniNEtZ project in Austria), which includes a multi-stakeholder involvement, we investigate the process of developing CE policies for the Austrian Federal Government from an SDG perspective. Within this context, the main research question is how multi-stakeholder processes can enable the development of CE policy options. The study thus contributes to providing a structured approach of how different stake-holders from academia, industry, research funding agencies and government collaborate, how knowledge is created and transferred within this multi-stakeholder process, and what outputs, outcomes and impacts can be realized at the national level in the context of developing CE policies using an SDG framework.
RECYCLE UP! GHANA
Recycle Up! Ghana Empowers Youth to Develop Local Solutions for Environmental and Societal Problems
Recycle Up! Ghana (RUG) aims to train and empower the Ghanaian youth and as well provide the platform for them to tackle the plastic waste challenge in the country.
Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb München (AWM) - Waste Management Cooperation Munich
Munich’s campaign to reduce plastic waste, Germany
AWM's information campaign intended to draw Munich's attention to the plastic problem and to motivate people to avoid such waste.
ZMS Zweckverband Müllverwertung Schwandorf
Conversion of a lignite-fired power plant into a waste-to-energy plant using the example of the ZMS Schwandorf, Germany
With the establishment of the Zweckverband ZMS Schwandorf 40 years ago and the associated decision to convert the existing lignite-fired power plant into a waste-to-energy plant, approx. 8.25 million tons of CO2 equivalents were saved in the period from 1982 to 2018.
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