Doranova from Finland has teamed up with Binh Duong Water Supply Sewerage Environment Co., Ltd. (BIWASE) to implement the second phase of a waste-to-energy project in Vietnam. In the first phase, another Finnish company provided waste separation lines on the same site. According to Mikko Saalasti, head of renewable energy Read more…
With the mounds of garbage lying uncollected in many urban areas, imagine what would happen if county governments could manage it better at the tap of a button. Sounds far-fetched? Not really, because 23-year-old Abraham Mwaura, a fourth-year student at the Technical University of Mombasa, has created an application known Read more…
Cigarette butts — used cigarette filters — are a lingering pollution hazard because they mainly contain cellulose acetate which is non-biodegradable. However, the cellulose acetate makes them an attractive starting material for valorisation to porous carbons. Such valorization is in line with the current trend to move away from coal-based Read more…
Plastic pollution is arguably one of the most pressing environmental issues today, with an estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic entering the oceans each year, and researchers predicting that there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050. But in the same way that the global community Read more…
There’s plenty of space in the landfill, but that’s not why Brian Fuller with the Department of Environmental Quality says it’s upsetting those who like to reduce, reuse and recycle. “We’re not recycling just to keep this stuff out of the landfill. It’s a commodity. We’re providing a feedstock or Read more…
Two years after ISWA’s Report “Wasted Health: The tragic case of dumpsites” that described the linkages between the world’s dumpsites and human health, a new landmark report that was published recently by the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health reveals that pollution kills at least nine million people and costs trillions of dollars every year. This Read more…
CLEAN-tech company Syn Dynamics Australia has partnered with Papua New Guinea’s Total Waste Management to develop its first commercial scale plant to turn hazardous carbon-based waste materials into a high-value synthetic gas known as syngas. Having now been incorporated, the 50-50 JV plans to install and operate the waste treatment Read more…
AT FIRST glance it’s a touching moment. A newborn nursed by its mum in the garden of her home. But there are no trees in this backyard, no well-kept lawn. Instead, the mum squats surrounded by mountains of filthy plastic rubbish. Soiled food packages, plastic crates and even blood bags Read more…
Evoware is an Indonesia-based startup behind a new kind of packaging that is perfectly good to eat – but which also naturally biodegrades if you do not want to snack on it once your meal is over. Christian’s home country is second on the list of countries that create the Read more…
MOST of Perth’s municipal and commercial waste might soon be trucked to Premier Mark McGowan’s seat of Rockingham for waste-to-energy incineration. A 20-year landmark deal was made on Wednesday night by the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council for all its residual waste — 120,000 tonnes a year — to be sent Read more…