Recent WtERT News
Cleveland landfilling recyclables after unsuccessful second attempt to secure processing contract
People do not realize how expensive recycling can be for a city. Have a look at this story. A prior contract expired last month and the city declined to accept a new bid that would have reportedly cost around $200 per ton. Please click the link for the details.
News from WtERT-Colombia
Receive our greetings from the SOCIEDAD ANTIOQUEÑA DE INGENIEROS, SAI, which supports WTERT - Colombia. Enrique Posada, our president, received your excellent communication about Covid 19. Very important the points you show. We translated it and sent it to our contacts in Colombia. We annex the translated communication. We make use of this opportunity to tell you that we also postponed the third Panamerican [...]
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 2020 CEWEP welcomes the recognition of waste management as a sector providing an essential service to our society by Virginijus Sinkevičius, the European Environment [...]
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 of dollars wasted annually in [...]
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.
IN DEPTH: Squaring the Circle of Waste to Energy’s Future | Waste Management World
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