Sanitation

What would waste management do without waste incineration?

What would waste management do without waste incineration? For without incineration, nothing would actually work in waste disposal today. Waste incineration forms the backbone of waste management in Germany and its importance will grow in a sustained material management oriented to resource efficiency. July-Sep 2007

Publication Date: 
01/07/2007
Andreas Troge
Energy and Environment
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Cement, Waste Conversion, Waste To Energy, Waste Incineration, Germany
Energy

 Ghost energy

Waste-to-energy as a placebo In her petition to the Supreme Court, Patel demanded a stay on the subsidy to wte plants and an independent review of such plants based on the experience in the

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Biomass, Waste To Energy, Supreme Court, India, Hyderabad (D), Lucknow (D)
Hazardous Waste

 Burning quest

Should public health be sacrificed to waste? Garbage incineration is a trench war with clearly drawn battle lines. The Union ministry of urban development (moud) has been sceptical of wte. Social

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
Down to Earth
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20070315
0
Tags:
Health Effects, Garbage, Waste To Energy, Waste Incineration, Dioxin
Energy

Report of the working group on new and renewable energy for XITH five year plan (2007-12)

This document contains the Report of the working group on new and renewable energy for XITH five year plan (2007-12) .

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Tags:
Energy, Renewable Energy, India, Wind Energy, Rural Energy, Subsidies, Energy Policy, Off-Grid, On-Grid, Power Transmission, Solar Energy, Waste To Energy, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Planning Commission
Climate Change

Carbon Credits

Trade clean air for green-house gases. What do you get? Pollution? Not necessarily. Money?

Publication Date: 
23/05/2004
Nitya Varadarajan
Business Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Kyoto Protocol, Certified Emission Reduction, Solid Waste, Waste To Energy, India, Chennai (T), European Union (EU)
Solid Waste

Rethinking urban waste in India: Creating a community paradigm

Urban India is likely to face a massive waste disposal problem in the coming years. Traditionally, the problem of waste has been seen simply as one of cleaning and disposing. But a closer look at the current and future scenarios reveals that waste needs to be treated holistically, recognising its natural resources roots as well as its health impacts.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2003
Ravi Agarwal, Sanjay K. Gupta
Social Change
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Solid Waste, India, Waste Management, Cost Benefit Analysis, Landfill, Rag Pickers, Organic Waste, Waste To Energy, Municipal Solid Waste Rules 2000, Delhi, Urban Sanitation, Waste Recycling
Solid Waste

Sukhdev Vihar residents say no to waste-to-energy plant

Petition terming proximity to colony as eco-hazard submitted to Ramesh

Residents of Sukhdev Vihar in South Delhi are up in arms against a waste-to-energy plant coming up 150 metres away from the colony

Publication Date: 
18/03/2011
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Waste To Energy, Renewable Energy, Solid Waste, Municipal Corporation, Electricity, Delhi, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Sanctuaries
Energy

Plastic waste can yield diesel now

Biotech, a Thiruvananthapuram-based institution, which is engaged in bio-waste management and non-conventional energy generation programmes, has acquired an innovative technology for generating diesel from plastic waste.

The technology developed in Austria is being promoted in India by the TVS Group.

Publication Date: 
23/02/2011
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Solid Waste, Plastics, Energy, Diesel, Kochi, Kerala, Waste To Energy, Waste Management
Energy

Nod for bio-gas facilities

NEW DELHI: To address the issue of solid waste disposal in the least polluting fashion, the Delhi Cabinet has approved setting up of bio-gas production facilities that would use bio-degradable waste through the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre-developed Nisargruna technology.

Publication Date: 
16/02/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Biogas, Energy, Waste To Energy, Delhi, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Solid Waste
Energy

Canadian Biodiesel Plant To Make Fuel From Flax

A tiny Canadian startup company that is preparing to open a biodiesel plant in Toronto this spring says it will produce clean fuel, animal feed and human food all from the modest flax seed.

Privately held Energy Innovation Corp, which has also developed a way to produce biofuel from used coffee grounds, said its production process creates multiple revenue streams, but no waste.

"The demand i

Publication Date: 
17/01/2011
Susan Taylor
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Biodiesel, Energy, Canada, Biofuel, Waste To Energy

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