Six-minute video of a 2,000 ton/day WTE Chinese plant
China ENFI Engineering Corporation (China ENFI), which has contributed to 30% of Chinese WTE. Please click the below link for watching the video.
Sustainable waste management in Denmark
The recycling rate of Denmark (52%R+C, 48% WTE, 0% landfilling), is an example that recycling and WTE go hand-in-hand. The new WTE plant in Copenhagen (https://www.copenhill.dk/en/), one of the most beautiful and environmentally-minded cities of the world, serves a dual purpose: [...]
Significant impact of landfilling on climate change, in State of the Planet of Columbia University, by Prof. Themelis
The U.S. Should Phase Out Landfilling, as China and the E.U. Are Doing View the original news from this hyperlink. by Nickolas J. Themelis |May 5, 2021 Around the world, economic development has been accompanied by the generation of about 2 [...]
The long-term legacy of landfilling: Over 150,000 historic landfill sites in E.U.
Across the EU the legacy of that is an estimated 150,000 to 500,000 historic landfill sites – many not built to today’s sanitary standards. A four-year EU funded project investigate the potential to recover materials, energy and land from these sites [...]
WTE in Istanbul
On September 26, 2018, Prof. Themelis of GWC made a presentation to UN-visiting 1st Lady of Turkey and to Minister of the Environment, Prof. Birpinar, regarding the potential and benefits of WTE, for Turkey. The good news is that a one-million ton [...]
DOE ARPA-E Solid Waste Project
ARPA-E (https://arpa-e.energy.gov) is a new program under the US Department of Energy. Please click this video link to see the details of this program.
Bollinger Calls on Biden to End the Trump Administration’s Assault on the International Exchange of Ideas
Prof. Nickolas Themelis and the Earth Engineering Center at Columbia University, founder of the Global WtERT Council, are proud of our many foreign alumni trained in sustainable waste management. Among the self-destructive regulations implemented by the outgoing US administration, there were seven [...]
News from WtERT-Brazil
Mr. YURI SCHMITKE A. B. TISI is now the head of WtERT-Brazil. Please see attached two presentations about the Brazilian WTE Market. Click the links in the photos to download the presentation slides.
Paper by Dr. Samet Ozturk (WtERT-Turkey) at Eurasia 2020 Symposium
By Dr. Samet Ozturk (WtERT-Turkey)
Download conference paper (pdf)Announcement/ Creation of WtERT-Morocco/ Signature of MOU with IRESEN
We are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Global WtERT Council (GWC), and the Research Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies (IRESEN), Morocco’s National Institute for Solar Energy and Renewable Energy. [...]