Welcome to the World WtERT Congress, the global gathering of all members of Global Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WtERT). We appreciate your participation and contributions to this event that will take place at the campus of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China!

It is our great pleasure to bring you all together, members of WtERT family from around the globe, leading companies, and professional associations from Europe, USA and China to identify and advance the best available technologies for the recovery of energy and materials from residual non-recyclables wastes.

According to current GHG inventories, landfills are the third largest source of anthropogenic methane globally and account for approximately 11 percent of estimated global methane emissions. Addressing methane is critically important to combating climate change. Over a 20-year period, methane is 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide and is the 2nd largest driver of anthropogenic climate change. According to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), “cutting methane is the strongest lever we have to slow climate change over the next 25 years”. In the near-term, reducing emissions of Short Lived Climate Pollutants like methane is more effective than reducing CO2.

Following those facts, WtERT can play a crucial role in addressing and developing effective responses by collecting, sharing knowledge and fostering a strong global commitment to divert waste from landfills, especially by bringing together USA and China to work together with other countries. Communities and policymakers can learn more about how Methane emissions will affect them, what they can do to divert residual non-recyclable wastes from landfills to mitigate, and reduce their climate footprint.

The time to act is now. Every year we delay placing a strong focus on the diversion of wastes from landfills, we add to a growing burden of methane emissions to the atmosphere, and a growing burden to our children.

We hope to meet you all at Hangzhou to learn and collaborate together to advance our common goal and continue the legacy of WtERT on global stage.

Yours sincerely,

Your donation support enables WtERT association to continue its important mission for nearly 30 years to fund, publish, and distribute in-depth, high quality, independent scientific research regarding the role of Waste-to-Energy technologies in the circular economy society as an essential infrastructure to mitigate climate change for the ultimate benefit of society, the scientific community and industries.

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