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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
By Dr. Samet Ozturk (WtERT-Turkey)
Download conference paper (pdf)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. [...]
This report contains the articles, maps, and figures of WTE plants in the U.S. It provides information on the capacity, production, emissions, and exploration in the circular economy of the WTE facilities by states. Please download the report for more details. [...]
By Sun Kai Kai Sun, Visiting Scholar, Zhejiang University Advisors: Prof. A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas and Prof. Nickolas J. Themelis Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science Columbia University June, 2020 This report [...]
CCS Pilot Phase Successfully Completed Fortum Oslo Varme’s Klemetsrud waste-to-energy (WTE) plant has successfully validated carbon capture technology at its pilot plant. The move is part of Norway’s planned full-scale carbon capture and storage project known as Northern Lights. The Northern [...]
