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State Street - How a financial services company transforms waste into energy
Sector: Finance Region: US, UK Organisation: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving worldwide institutions and offering a flexible suite of services that spans the investment spectrum, including investment management, research and trading, and investment servicing. With $21.5 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $1.9 trillion* in assets under management ...
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Penair Highschool invest in Harp Bio-digester CX5 - Case Study
Penair Highschool decided to invest in a Harp Bio-digester CX5 with an integrated biomass boiler. This digester can process 2,000 litres of organic waste a week. This in turn saves the school an astonishing £11,000 annually. Before the Bio-digester they were spending an astronomical £11,000 on waste collection. Penair now have a complete food waste to energy process. By having this ...
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Going further with food: The rise of channelling food waste for biogas production - Case Study
Almost 50% of the total amount of food thrown away in the UK comes from our homes, representing over seven million tonnes of food and drink wasted from British households annually. Wasting this food costs the average household £470 a year. In fact, if we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the benefit to the planet would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road ...
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Waste management in Italy: speeding up recycling while saying goodbye to landfilling
The waste management in Italy has a big potential to grow capacity in smart waste handling. The country already has one of the highest recycling rates in the EU, modern waste management plants, and steady practices in alternative fuel handling. But at the same time, there is a growing need to enhance the circular economy and prevent environmental problems. In this blog post, we’ll run ...
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Going Further with Food: The Rise of Channelling Food Waste for Biogas Production
Almost 50% of the total amount of food thrown away in the UK comes from our homes, representing over seven million tonnes of food and drink wasted from British households annually. Wasting this food costs the average household £470 a year. In fact, if we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the benefit to the planet would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road ...
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Going further with food: The rise of channelling food waste for biogas production
Almost 50% of the total amount of food thrown away in the UK comes from our homes, representing over seven million tonnes of food and drink wasted from British households annually. Wasting this food costs the average household £470 a year. In fact, if we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the benefit to the planet would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road ...
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City of Napa and Napa Recycling and Waste Services - Case Study
The City of Napa and Napa Recycling and Waste Services, LLC are working with Zero Waste Energy (ZWE) to develop an anaerobic digestion (AD) to biofuel project that will help the city of Napa achieve AB32, AB340 and AB1826 goals as well as city goals, seeking to reach 75% total landfill diversion and increase organic waste recovery from food services businesses by 2020. Successful pilot programs ...
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Navigating Critical Considerations of Plastic Pyrolysis
In the realm of sustainable waste management, plastic pyrolysis emerges as a pivotal technology, promising to redefine our approach to plastic disposal. This process, which involves the thermal decomposition of plastic waste in the absence of oxygen, is not without its intricacies. Delving into the core of plastic pyrolysis, several nuanced aspects demand our attention for a comprehensive ...
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Casella Waste Systems: Moving towards zero waste
Started in 1975 as a single truck operation in Rutland, VT, Casella Waste Systems now stands as one of the leading waste and recycling companies in the U.S., employing more than 1,700 people. The company owns and/or operates 31 solid waste collection operations, 29 transfer stations, 17 recycling facilities, nine Subtitle D landfills, three landfill gas-to-energy facilities, one landfill ...
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How Much Energy Exists in Wastewater?
Through technologies like anaerobic digestion, wastewater treatment plants can make use of wastewater’s latent energy. The energy potential of untreated wastewater has been widely discussed, but is there any reliable measure of how much energy is available in effluent? In the United States alone, wastewater holds enough energy potential to generate 851 trillion BTU of energy annually, ...
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MSW Thermovalorization
The problem of waste elimination has been a topical subject in the last decade due to the growing use of throwaway products and packaging, that make up 40% of the entire waste by now. In Italy more than 25 million tons of municipal solid waste are produced every year. On average, every inhabitants in our country produce about 450 kg of waste per year, more than one kilogram per day. Until the ...
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Whittlebury spa hotel conferencing - Case study
Background Whittlebury Hall Hotel and Spa, within earshot of the famous Formula 1 Silverstone racing circuit, boasts not only golf and award winning 23 room spa complex , but 213 bedrooms and over 40 different training and syndicate rooms. With consistently high occupancy rates and a significant training and conference business, the catering facilities on site including the 3 main restaurants ...
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Adding Value With Anaerobic Digestion
Adding waste-to-energy technology to wastewater treatment produces energy that can be used to power operations Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a biological process that uses microbes to biodegrade organic matter (feedstock) in the absence of oxygen. It provides a host of benefits in the treatment of challenging wastewater streams while offering the opportunity to produce value in the process. ...
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Unconventional fuels are the future of the waste industry
The concept of Waste-to-Energy (WtE) isn’t a new one – it’s been around for many years – but with an increasing focus on the environmental agenda from the Government and businesses, 2019 has been an important time for innovations in this arena. Our MD, Simon Webb, recently spoke to The Energy-from-Waste Network about the role alternative fuels played in 2019 and their ...
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Waste Collection and Management Vehicles
Procompactor – Waste Collection and Management Vehicles Waste management is a critical aspect of modern society, and it is essential to have efficient and effective waste collection vehicles to maintain a clean and healthy environment. This article will discuss the importance of waste collection and management vehicles and the role they play in the proper disposal of waste. Waste ...
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Technifying treatment plants to improve the classification of plastic containers
The United Nations has just approved the first international agreement against plastic IN which 175 countries commit to drawing up plans to reduce the impact of plastic throughout its life cycle. A historic and binding resolution to end the pollution of an industry that has multiplied its waste in recent decades, generating 400 million tons annually. This resolution is the most important global ...
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EU Confirms Disposal Ranking for Waste Burning
The European Commission has confirmed that, following a European court of justice ruling delivered in February, energy recovery from dedicated waste incinerators can no longer be counted towards waste recovery targets under the EU packaging directive. By extension, the same should logically apply also to the end-of-life vehicles (ELV) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (Weee) ...
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Project - Oakbank Services Install New Kiverco MRF
The Customer Oakbank Waste Management Ltd (T/A Oakbank Services) is a waste management company based in South West Scotland. Striving hard to re-use all waste and by diverting it from landfill. Oakbank Services handles all types of specialised wastes as well as providing haulage, skip hire and trade waste bin collections. It is owned by the Dundas Chemical Company where Cat 1 and Cat 3 ...
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WASTE MANAGEMENT Smart Class 2019 “Retrospectives Round-Up” PLUS Mark Your Calendars for WASTE MANAGEMENT Smart Class 2020!
Earlier this summer we hosted WASTE MANAGEMENT Smart Class 2019 in London. Here’s what some of the stakeholders in attendance had to say: “This was my second Waste Management Smart Class and I found it as interesting and valuable as the first. It was another excellent event showing the high levels of innovation, across the UK and beyond, that are being developed to ensure that waste ...
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Environmental efficiency of composting versus anaerobic digestion of separately collected, organic waste
Environmental policy in the Netherlands among others aims at closing material cycles and minimising the amount of waste requiring final disposal. In this policy the highest priority is given to the prevention of waste production followed by (in descending order of preference) reuse, incineration with energy recovery and sanitary landfilling. In the implementation of this solid waste policy also ...
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