Sustainable Waste Management - International Workshop!

The Earth Engineering Center (EEC) of Columbia University in collaboration with WtERT-Greece/SYNERGIA and "Tamiz Shahar" JSC are organizing an interdisciplinary event that will focus on state of the art technologies for sustainable waste management, entitled "Waste to Energy as an Integral Part of Sustainable Waste Management Worldwide. The case of Baku city/Azerbaijan".

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19^thAnnual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference Lancaster, Pennsylvania

The 19^th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference (NAWTEC) was held from Monday the 16th of May to Wednesday the 18th of May in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Waste Management Helps Schools Raise Money While Encouraging Recycling

Recycling is gaining momentum every day across Iowa and around the country.  More and more families are learning about the items that can be recycled at the curb. Recycling has even become a part of the curriculum at many area schools. Now Waste Management of Iowa is encouraging families and businesses to THINK GREEN® and recycle as part of the Box Tops for Education program.

R1: An incentive for improving energy efficiency

CEWEP publishes the third edition of its report on the energy efficiency of Waste-to-Energy Plants (waste incineration with energy recovery) in Europe.

"The energy efficiency criterion (R1 formula) that was introduced in the Waste Framework Directive has proved to be an incentive for Waste-to-Energy plants in Europe to improve their Energy Efficiency", Ella Stengler, CEWEP’s Managing Director, stated on the occasion of the publication of the association’s third Energy Efficiency report.