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Waste-to-Energy in a Circular Economy: Friend or Foe? – Europe
Posted on July 6, 2022 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalSource Circular economy – it seems to be the buzzword of the moment, circling across all industries. But what does it actually entail? According to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in a circular economy “materials for new products...
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New WtE facility being built in Melbourne – Australia
Posted on May 19, 2022 by DrRossH in General, Landfills and DisposalSource A Melbourne based waste to energy company is developing a state-of-the-art waste to energy and integrated resource recovery processing plant which will deliver baseload renewable energy while importantly recovering recyclable materials from waste. Great Southern Waste Technologies (GSWT)...
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New Landfill gas (generation) method available – Australia
Posted on September 22, 2021 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalSource article The new Landfill gas (generation) method came into effect on 10 September 2021. Landfill gas projects capture and combust gas from waste to prevent the release of methane into the atmosphere. Combusting landfill gas converts...
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Design for Disposability
Posted on September 18, 2021 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalSource Article Much of what is designed is done so with the sole intent of creating manipulative, misleading, or misdirected outcomes, in order to get people to consume things they don’t need or see the world in a particular way...
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Waste to energy: Lessons from Japan
Posted on September 16, 2021 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalThere is one major exception, however: Japan. In the early 2000s, gasification and the less commonly used pyrolysis processes together had a market share of over 50% in the waste-to-energy sector. While this has now fallen to an estimated 25-...
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Room to grow: generating energy from waste in Australia
Posted on July 2, 2021 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalSource: Room to grow: generating energy from waste in Australia In looking to Europe, we must also acknowledge that while the ambitious federal and state resource recovery targets are supported, evidence from numerous EU members (and other countries) that have...
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Interpol report shows increase in illegal plastic waste imports – Australia
Posted on February 25, 2021 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalSource: Interpol report shows increase in illegal plastic waste imports - Inside Waste A report by international enforcement agency, Interpol, has noted that there has been a marked increase in the illegal importation of plastics to lower Asian and eastern...
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Turning wastewater into green natural gas – Australia
Posted on February 24, 2021 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalOriginal article The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will inject $5.9 million in funding to Jemena to trial injecting biomethane into the natural gas network in New South Wales. The demonstration project is the first of its kind in Australia. Jemena...
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How Victoria’s recycling industry ended up in the dumps – Australia
Posted on February 23, 2021 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalSource: How Victoria’s recycling industry ended up in the dumps Two years ago, nearly two-thirds of “recyclables” Victorians dutifully placed in their yellow-topped bins ended up in landfill. More than 390,000 tonnes of recyclables were dumped in landfills in 2019-20 –...
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Toxic waste disaster: how greed and bad regulation allowed Graham White to distort the national market in waste. Australia
Posted on February 22, 2021 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalSource: Toxic waste disaster: how greed and bad regulation allowed Graham White to distort the national market in waste. But five years on, we know the truth. Covered by a thin layer of topsoil were the pits that White had...
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