WtERT News

WTERT members worldwide:
This is to remind you that the Global WTERT Council (GWC) is participating in the world Atlas of all known waste management facilities www.atlas.d-waste.com/

Here is something for those who continue to deny global warming: The highest worldwide temperatures recorded in January-August 2016. See the GISS (Earth Institute, Columbia University) graph here.

The collection of the "commercial" stream of MSW in NYC, over three million tons annually, has been a big environmental problem. Finally, a glimmer of light has appeared at the end of the tunnel.

By Ben Messenger

The gulf region produces around 150 million tonnes of waste annually, with only 5% of it being recycled and vast quantities going to municipal dumps and landfill or, worse, being illegally dumped at unauthorised sites. This is a growing problem too, since the rapid urban expansion of ME countries means that their annual waste production rates are also on the rise.

Dr. Eftsratios (Stratos) Kalogirou represented the Global WTERT Council at the IRRC in Vienna, Sept. 5-6, 2016.

Dr. A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas, Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering represented Columbia University at the 2016 Gordon Conference on Industrial Ecology, held in Stowe, Vermont. (June 19-24)

The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) 2016 Excellence Gold Award was won by the Covanta Honolulu WTE plant. The SWAN 2016 Excellence Silver Award went to the SEMASS WTE plant of Covanta, at Rochester, Mass.

Report by Ms. Yenaxika Bolate (EEE graduate) on the May 2016 visit to the West Palm Beach, FL facility.

Tim Sharobem, PhD Thesis, Mitigation of High Temperature Corrosion in Waste-to-Energy Power Plants, EAEE Columbia University (2016) Now Available.