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 2020 CEWEP welcomes the recognition of waste management as a sector providing an essential service to our society [...]
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 was supreme. Thankfully, the district court struck down their ridiculous ordinance. Please click the link for the details. [...]
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. Estimated CAPEX: US$460/ton annual capacity.
“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 the MSW going to WTEs where the contained metals are recovered as scrap metals. If the billions [...]
Upcoming EEC/WTERT/ASME Conference on October 22nd & 23rd, 2020
Please see attached flyer for our upcoming EEC/WTERT/ASME Conference to be held at CCNY on October 22nd & 23rd, 2020. We will be opening a call for abstracts shortly so please visit out website for updates. We ask that you forward this announcement to anyone you think will be interested to attend.
Covanta reports record tonnage processed in 2019 and better prospects for WTE in U.S.
Please click the link to Covanta reports.
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 tangible information on Sierra Energy and other Gasification processes in the CNBC documentary. It is well done and mentions three [...]
Responses by Prof. Nickolas Themelis to questions on WTE and landfilling posed by Waste Dive reporter.
Question: Dr. Themelis, Thank you very much for passing this along. The thesis seems to be comparing the health and environmental effects of WTE as compared to landfilling, in which it is determined to be less harmful. However, most of the experts I talk to who are against WTE are in favor of a "zero waste" system that integrates reduction, [...]