BIR’s Position Paper on Chemical Recycling

Mechanical recycling must take priority and be incentivized. Chemical recycling needs careful consideration and well-informed, market-based policies to ensure that it complements rather than competes with traditional recycling methods, the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) stressed in its latest position paper published in April. According to the global recycling federation representing 37 national recycling associations […]

Goal to Be a Flagship Facility in every Respect: Singapore’s new Integrated Waste Management Facility

The Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) – in tandem with the Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (Tuas WRP) – will be part of Singapore’s project to realize an innovative and sustainable solution to meet the country’s long-term solid waste management and used water treatment needs. The world’s first integrated waste and water treatment facility to be […]

Curbside Collection Improves Organic Waste Composting

Composting food and garden waste instead of sending it to landfills can significantly reduce methane emissions and help mitigate global warming. That is the result of a study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which explored the effects of curbside compost collection programs in New South Wales, Australia. “Governments around the world are interested in […]

Australia: Focused on NetZero

Austrade (Australian Trade and Investment Commission), the Australian Government’s international trade promotion and investment attraction agency, invited investors to attend the country on its way to cutting domestic carbon emissions. Australia also has ambitious targets to increase waste recovery and recycling rates as part of this goal. By 2030, Australia aims for a resource recovery […]

Creating Value from Waste in the Steelmaking Industry

In January this year, the European ZHyRON project was launched in Spain to pioneer a new process for recycling steel-making by-products based on using green hydrogen. As reported by independent non-profit media agency youris.com, nine companies and institutions from six European countries collaborate to pioneer a valorization pathway for steel-making by-products rich in iron and […]

Climate Friendly Future Depends on a Successful Circular Transition

Currently, the production, consumption and disposal of products and food are responsible for almost half of global greenhouse gas emissions and up to 90 percent of biodiversity loss, according to the latest Circular Cities Declaration report. This take-make-waste approach is exacerbating the consequences of climate change and, as the demand for strategic resources such as […]

Ghana and its Waste Management

The Republic of Ghana is on the road to circular economy. In 2021, the West African country had more than eight million households. The daily produced quantity of solid waste was estimated at nearly 12,710 tons. Only ten percent of this amount was collected and treated appropriately. As of 2021, over 3.1 million households disposed […]

Waste-to-Energy Boom Takes a Break – but new Markets are on the Horizon

As per a German-based consultant firm and provider of market intelligence ecoprog, the market for thermal waste treatment plants is set to grow further. The company has published the 16th edition of its annual study on the global Waste-to-Energy (WtE) sector. As stated by the market research firm, new project awardings in China and the […]

Cooperation for the Sustainable Production of Silicon Carbide

ESK-SIC GmbH, a market leader in silicon carbide (SiC) materials, and Kyocera, a global technology company specialized in manufacturing technical ceramics and semiconductor technologies, announced that they have entered a strategic partnership. ESK-SIC and Kyocera have defined developing solutions for the sustainable production of silicon carbide and the associated products as the goal of their […]

Waste-To-Energy Technology in Africa is Growing

Africa is hungry for energy. But according to the World Economic Forum, the energy generation capacity of the entire African continent (excluding South Africa) in 2021 was only 28 Gigawatts – equal to the Argentinian potential. Is the waste-to-energy technology able to deliver solutions? In 2018, the African Union set itself the ambition that “African […]