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Thorsten Pitschke
bifa environmental institute
Helena Oliveira
A Milestone for Waste Pickers: Belém Launches Its First Public Composting Center at COP30
A crucial but often overlooked group finally gained greater visibility: the waste pickers, represented by the International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP).
WasteCulture
WtERT DSS becomes WasteCulture
As discussed inside Global WtERT Council we are now in the process of taking the small step towards the new website wasteculture.com. I am convinced that this also will help the common cause to foster WtE techniques who need more acceptance in society.
Kanadevia INOVA
The Kompogas®dry fermentation system in Nanjing, China
This system is used to convert organic household waste into biogas, which is then used to generate electricity.
Experts / Involved Parties
Dr Ashish Khanal
Global Research Institute and Training Center
Serafina Löber
ia GmbH – Wissensmanagement und Ingenieurleistungen
Prof. Ing. Reinhard Büchl
INAS Institute for Applied Sustainability
EMiL Entsorgungswirtschaft Minden-Lübbecke AöR
EMiL Waste Management Minden-Lübbecke AöR
Closing material cycles through the interplay of waste utilisation and renewable energy generation.
Wastes remaining after all recycling and composting: POST-RECYCLING WASTES Prof. Emeritus Nickolas J. Themelis
Keynote presentation at MatER Conference on Final Sinks, June 5, 2023, Piacenza, Italy
ChatGPT
ChatGPT - the Truth about Zero Waste Initiatives
While zero waste initiatives have gained popularity in recent years, the truth is that achieving zero waste is not always possible or feasible.
Columbia News
Letter from 35 Scientists to U.S. Climate Leaders:
Prioritize Diversion of Biodegradable Waste from Landfills
ICP Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering
10th Waste-to-Resources -2023
With support of ISWA, Waste-to-Resources 2023, the 10th International Symposium and exhibition on Circular Economy, mechanical biological treatment (MBT), material recovery facilities (MRF) and Recycling from 5th to 7th of June will again be a leading platform for international exchange of knowledge about material and energy recovery from waste.
CREED e.V.
CReED, Germany focuses on the training of qualified staff for balanced sustainable waste management
There is no appropriate waste management without adequately trained staff.
WtERT
WtERT Announces New Country Representative
We are pleased to welcome Professor Hani Ahmad as the new representative in Jordan
WtERT Germany GmbH
Better structures for the collection of household waste and recyclables in Tunisia
Under the leadership of Fraunhofer, WtERT Germany has brought its project of collection points in three cities in Tunisia to an initial conclusion.
UTV AG
Composting of Bio-waste in Tallinn, Estonia
The Tallinna Jäätmete Taaskasutuskeskus AS plant in Tallinn uses the GORE® Cover System Technology in order to compost bio-waste and chicken manure whilst reducing odors and emissions.
W. L. Gore & Associates GmbH
Composting of Sewage Sludge in Kirchbichl, Austria
The ARAB Kirchbichl plant in Tyrol, Austria uses the GORE® Cover Process Technology in order to compost sewage sludge whilst reducing odors and emissions. 6 GORE® Cover system units in the intensive rotting phase have been installed in 2009.
INPUT GmbH, Engineering
Biowaste Fermentation Plant Westheim, Germany
Treatment-Capacity 58.000 tons per year
Kanadevia INOVA
HZI built Greece’s first dry fermentation plant in the Epirus region
The project was the country’s first step to recovering energy from organic waste.
AWG Abfallwirtschaft Landkreis Calw GmbH
Composting of Organic Waste at the Simmozheim Waste Disposal Plant, Germany
With the introduction of the GORE® Cover technology in 2014, the composting plant could be standardized to such an extent that in 2019 the AWG received the quality seal for organic compost. Due to the high level of satisfaction with the technology, a second plant has already been put into operation in the district.
Monitoring of composting process parameters from kitchen waste and green waste generated in tourism destinations: A case study of Tunisia Wassim Chaabane, Manel Selmi, Safwat Hemidat, Nour Chaher, Abdallah Nassour, Michael Nelles
Despite the organic fraction representing 68% of the total waste gene- rated (2.8 million tons produced in 2017), only 1-2% of municipal waste is currently biologically treated in Tunisia.
Optimization of food and green waste mixture ratios during the co-composting operation Nour El Houda Chaher*, Abdallah Nassour, Michael Nelles, Moktar Hamdi
The organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) reached currently 68% of the total waste generated in Tunisia. Thus, a biological treatment is needed. Composting is considered as an effective and sustainable technology from the perspectives of volume reduction, stabilization and releasing the pressure on landfills as well as making a valuable end-product.
WtERT Germany
Croatian Delegation visited Bavarian WtE- and Composting Plant
As a completion of the intensive cooperation of the export initiative Environmental Technologies "Sustainable Waste and Recycling Management in Croatia", a high-ranking 30-member delegation from Croatia visited Bavaria.
Lehrstuhl für Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben
Practices and Problems in MSW Management for Bio-Waste in Turkey E. B. Özkaraova Güngör, Assist. Prof. Dr. Hasan Sarptaş, Prof. Dr. Ertugrul Erdin
Regarding the integrated solid waste management in Turkey, tremendous efforts have been given to the transposition and implementation of related EU directives. The “By-law” on General Principles of Waste Management (05.07.2008), the “By-law” on Landfilling of Waste (26.03.2010) and many others have been enacted and the management of municipal solid wastes and other special and hazardous wastes has been improved.
Wasteconsult international
Compost-like material or thermal valorization – impact on MBT Plant economics and environmental aspects – Case studies in Portugal and UK Dipl. Ing. Stephan H. Schulte, João Rita, Joel Braga, Chris Mannall, Dipl. Ing. Hans Kübler
The paper focuses on the utilisation of the solid product from the biological Treatment stages of three MBT Plants which treat the organic fraction of MSW by means of wet mechanical pre-treatment units followed by anaerobic digestion. The experiences of two MBT Plants in Portugal (CVO Valorlis and CVO Suldouro) which produce compost-like material are contrasted with the experiences at the MBT Bredbury Parkway (UK) which, by drying the digested solids, produces a RDF with low calorific value for further use in thermal valorisation. The impact of these two different approaches on the operating costs for the treatment of the digested solids as well as the environmental aspects for both valorization paths is discussed.
Wasteconsult international
Simulation of biological plants working with municipal solid waste Bernard Morvan
To build mechanical biological plants, municipalities and engineer departments need tools to compare different proposals.