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Green Energy to Build Waste-to-Energy and Recycling at Puerto Rico Landfill
Posted on August 11, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWBJ Weekly News Bulletin: Aug. 7-13, 2012 Item: 7. When completed the estimated $100 million project will have a projected capacity to process at least 1,000 tons of MSW per day. The estimated output of the recycle and recovery operations...
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England building large waste-to-energy plant
Posted on August 11, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalPlastics News - England building large waste-to-energy plant. Air Products and Chemicals Inc., which is based in Allentown, Pa., plans to start construction in the next few weeks, with the intention of converting the first of 350,000 metric tons of...
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More Than 260 Million Tons of Waste per Year Will Be Converted to Energy by 2022, Forecasts Pike Research
Posted on July 28, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalMore Than 260 Million Tons of Waste per Year Will Be Converted to Energy by 2022, Forecasts Pike Research | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine. Today, nearly three-quarters of the trash discarded worldwide ends up in landfills or open pits...
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Appeal over SITA’s Cornish Waste to Energy Plans Denied
Posted on July 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalAppeal over SITA's Cornish Waste to Energy Plans Denied - Waste Mangagement World. Cornwall produces around 300,000 tonnes of waste each year and is set to run out of landfill space by 2014, according to the council. According...
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78 MW Waste to Energy Incineration Plant Under Way in Finland – Waste Mangagement World
Posted on July 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and Disposal78 MW Waste to Energy Incineration Plant Under Way in Finland - Waste Mangagement World. The agency added that the plant's heat production will correspond to about half of Vantaa region's annual heat requirement. It was also claimed that once...
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WTE in China
Posted on July 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWTE in China - Waste Mangagement World. Of the estimated one billion tons (907 million tonnes) of global ‘post-recycling’ MSW, close to 200 million tons (181 million tonnes) are processed in Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plants that recover the energy content of...
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Waste to Energy – The Boom Continues Led by Europe and China
Posted on July 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWaste to Energy - The Boom Continues Led by Europe and China - Waste Mangagement World. Across the world there are some 2150 thermal waste treatment plants are currently operational, and, according to ecoprog those facilities have the capacity to...
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TransForce Creates Partnership to Recoup Methane and Use to Produce Electricity on Hydro-Québec Grid
Posted on July 13, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalTransForce Creates Partnership to Recoup Methane and Use to Produce Electricity on Hydro-Québec Grid | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine. TransForce Inc. (TSX: TFI), a North American leader in the transportation and logistics industry, today announced that its Environmental...
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Xebec Technology for Chinese Landfill Gas Upgrade Projects – Waste Mangagement World
Posted on July 7, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalXebec Technology for Chinese Landfill Gas Upgrade Projects - Waste Mangagement World. The company said that the upgraded landfill gas will be compressed and used as renewable fuel in the transportation sector. According to Xebec the value of these...
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Veolia Opens 16 MW Newhaven Waste to Energy Plant – UK
Posted on July 7, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalVeolia Opens 16 MW Newhaven Waste to Energy Plant - Waste Mangagement World. At the opening Veolia were keen to point out that the plant operates under highly controlled conditions and converts residual waste left over after Continue reading this entry →