April 2020 Letter to members and friends of WtERT
Dear members and friends of the GWCouncil, Attached please find a letter by Prof. Nickolas Themelis, Columbia University. Please click the link for the details.
ESWET – Waste to Energy Essential Complement to Recycling as Lockdowns Loosen | Waste Management World
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Waste Incineration safely destroys viruses at high temperature
The European Environment Commission recognizes the importance of WTE power plants is dealing with the COVID-19 wastes. Over the years, the Global WTERT Council has published the fact that over 60 EU plants co-combust medical wastes along with MSW. 31st March [...]
Federal court strikes down Baltimore Clean Air Act
The city of Baltimore has one of the best waste management systems in the U.S. (recycling, composting, waste to energy) but the newly elected city officials took the misguided step to push the city back to the 20th century, when landfilling [...]
China Energy Building WTE Plant in Ukraine
China Energy announced plans to build a WTE plant in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, after signing a contract worth €210 million. The plant will process 1,500 daily tons using two units. China Energy will construct and provide operation and maintenance services. [...]
“Plastic Wars”, PBS Front line, March 31. 2020
Those of you who have not seen the film "Plastic Wars" (PBS Frontline, March 31, 2020; link below), please do: In a nutshell: Only some of the urban paper is worth recycling. The rest of the so-called recyclables should be left [...]
IN DEPTH: Squaring the Circle of Waste to Energy’s Future | Waste Management World
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Covanta reports record tonnage processed in 2019 and better prospects for WTE in U.S.
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Communication of Prof. Themelis with CNBC reporter who worked on recent CNBC video.
Gasification Growing in Waste Processing" (2020/02/07/the-future-of-waste-to-energy-technology.html). Please see the attached link to an interview with me by Katerina Ploumidaki, published in Ethnikos Kirikas (National Herald) of the US/UK last June. Hello K., further to our earlier correspondence, I finally found more [...]