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Energy and metals recovery from urban wastes (waste-to-energy or WtE) is one of the key areas that can help address this issue.

How the behavior of the population in the private sector can be directed towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

ESWET welcomes the European Commission’s roadmap on the carbon removal certification and would like to highlight the potential of the Waste-to-Energy sector in contributing to the decarbonisation efforts.

Canada’s environment minister says he’s “cautiously optimistic” that he, and his German counterpart, will be able to convince enough countries to help fund a $100-billion climate change pledge ahead of the rapidly approaching U.N. climate talks in Scotland next month.

This report presents the findings of the EIP-AGRI Focus Group 'Reducing the plastic footprint of agriculture'. Plastics can be found in each step of crop production, from containers to fertilisers to mulch covering the soil, the pipes irrigating the fields, and the packaging around the final products. The Focus Group experts discussed how the plastic footprint in agriculture could be reduced. They discussed existing solutions to reduce the use of plastic, avoid debris with biodegradable plastics, limit contamination from microplastics, collect waste in an efficient way, and recycle the plastics.

The Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) of 12 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states is considering rules and other means to cut NOx emissions from sources that include waste combustors, industrial boilers, and trucks. The member states have struggled to attain EPA ozone standards, especially in areas with persistently high ozone levels like New York City and Connecticut.

The present study focuses on the release of dark colored leachate from soil-like material (SLM) reclaimed from aged municipal solid waste (MSW) at three dumps of India (located at Delhi, Hyderabad and Kadapa).

Highlights •Development of the Solid Waste and Wastewater (SWW) management software is presented. •A graphical user interface applicable in the context of developed and developing economies •Tools for technical, economic, policy, and sensitivity analysis are provided. •Tool for optimizing the life-cycle of emissions or costs considering carbon credits •Assist decision makers to allocate expenditures for emissions mitigation measures

Canada has been relying on the integration of its forest industry for decades during which lumbering was closely associated with the pulp and paper industry back in an age where CO2 emissions were merely discussed.

Emission Limits of Incineration in China, Japan, South Korea, U.S.

A report by Ecologic Institute and Climact shows that the draft National Energy and Climate Plans presented by governments at the start of 2019 are in acute need of improvement. They suffer from inadequate targets and insufficient details on the policies and financing needed to move towards net-zero emission economies in Europe. Member States also need to do better in involving their national stakeholders in providing input to the plans, to benefit from their expertise and to get them on board for future policies. Good practice examples exist around the EU to serve as inspiration for the final plans due by the end of the year.

Chlorine (Cl) is extensively present in solid wastes, causing significant problems during the thermal conversion of waste to energy or fuels, by combustion, gasification or pyrolysis.

In 1989, the two major sources of mercury emissions to the atmosphere in the U.S. were coal-fired power plants (80 tons Hg) and waste to energy power plants (82 tons Hg). This paper examines what has happened to these two major sources of mercury emissions since 1989.

Solid waste management has witnessed much progress in recent years with considerable efforts targeting the reduction of associated impacts and carbon emissions.

“It’s like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from going under.” Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Nowadays, waste-to-energy has become a type of renewable energy utilization that can provide environmental and economic benefits in the world. In this paper, we evaluated the quality of twelve biodegradable waste samples from Myanmar by binder laboratory heating and drying oven at 105 °C. The calculation methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) were used for the greenhouse gas emission estimation from waste disposal at the open dumpsites, anaerobic digestion, and waste transportation in the current situation of Myanmar.

The EU-Reference Document for emissions control under the European Union‘s Directive 2010/75/EU at Large Combustion Plants (LCP – i.e at coal-fired power plants – was finalized in 2017, establishing Prof. Vosteen‘s Bromine-Enhanced-Mercury-Oxidation (BEMO-technology) as a BAT. In April 2018, the corresponding Waste Incineration BREF has undergone its final revisions by the Technical Working Group, coordinated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission’s Science and Knowledge Service in Seville; for mercury emissions control at Waste Incineration Plants (WIP) the BEMO-technology was established as a BAT, as well. The following paper will report about applications of the technology at divers WIP in Germany (since 2001) and in France (since 2014). A special issue are mercury emission peaks as caused by unforeseen (sometimes criminal) input of hidden mercury; also this problem can be handled easily, as will be described again below.

By and large, literature and members of the association grouping the European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology (ESWET) specialised in the design of Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plants claim that waste incineration, as a component of a wider waste management system, can entail significant greenhouse gases (GHGs) savings.

In Belgium the municipalities are responsible for the household waste. Before 1970 each municipality in Belgium had a dumping place. All the waste from households and industries was dumped there, giving lots of environmental pollution and annoyance. Especially in the densily populated parts of the country it became practically impossible to find locations for such new dumping places, because they were no more socially accepted. Around 1970 municipalities started to cooperate in intermunicipalities to find a solution for their waste problem.

Following the introduction of Industrial Emission Directive (IED) in 2010, the position of WI-BREF with regard to the approval of new plants and also the continued operation of existing plants changed considerably. With the IED it was stipulated that ...

Today, SNCR (Selective Non Catalytic Reduction) Technology is a well proven technology to meet even very challenging NO_x reduction requirements. Continuous developments of the reduction agent injection system, online temperature measurement systems as well as improved automation concepts have increased the SNCR NO_x control efficiency as well as its flexibility and reliability.