You better eat it

Skanderborg-based Bigadan A/Sand Kanadevia Inova AG are extending their collaboration with the ongoing development of more biogas plants in Denmark.

The landmark acquisition accelerates the evolution of the Kanadevia Inova business beyond Business Development, EPC and plant lifecycle service provider.

The COP29 Declaration on Reducing Methane from Organic Waste marks the first time waste is formally included in a COP Declaration.

The Council adopted its position (‘general approach’) on the targeted revision of the waste framework directive, with a focus on food and textile waste.

Households across all continents wasted over 1 billion meals a day in 2022, while 783 million people were affected by hunger and a third of humanity faced food insecurity.

The Environment Committee adopted its proposals to better prevent and reduce waste from food and textiles across the EU.

This study investigated the performance of a passive biocover system at a Danish landfill.

Global WtERT and Sharjah University deliver letter to COP28 President on methane emissions from waste

Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, is emitted from landfills, resulting from the decaying of organic waste over time under anaerobic conditions.

Prioritize Diversion of Biodegradable Waste from Landfills

Waste-tracking devices are powerful tools to optimise kitchen processes and reduce food waste in food services. The present study investigates how using such tools affect the sustainability of a business in terms of environmental, economic and social benefits.

In Germany, energy generation from waste has been a significant part of the country's energy mix for several years now. Waste-to-energy (WtE) facilities convert municipal solid waste (MSW), industrial waste, and biomass into electricity and heat, reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills.

Activated coke was prepared by mixing sewage sludge and waste poplar bark biomass from furniture manufacturing. The physical activation method of these feedstocks with steam for 1 h at 850 °C was implemented.

With the new report on methane emissions, the European Parliament supports bold actions to minimise the damages methane causes to the environment. The waste sector cannot be left out of the process.

Hospital and medical wastes are disposed in tens of thousands of dedicated incinerators or are autoclaved to destroy pathogens and then landfilled. However, over a hundred cities which have waste to energy (WTE) power plants fueled by municipal solid waste, use these plants to co-combust medical wastes. This report identified forty one such plants, located in a dozen nations, which in total co-combust about 90,000 tons of medical waste annually. The medical waste represented an average of 2.4% of the total amount of wastes combusted in these WTE power plants. Generally, the medical wastes are collected at the point of origin in puncture resistant, leakproof and sealed containers which are transported to WTE plants and are mechanically conveyed to the WTE furnace.

India, a country known for its rich cultural heritage and diverse population, has made significant strides in waste management and cleanliness over the years

I just want to congratulate Bowman and Gibson for their article on methane emission from landfills. The actual methane emissions from some landfills serving Indianapolis were included in a recent nationwide study of methane emissions from landfills, by N.J. Themelis and A.C. Bourtsalas of Columbia University. Please see more about this study, in your "Context" question below. Prof. Nickolas Themelis, Columbia University

Together with the recognition of anaerobic digestion, the broader inclusion of Waste-to-Energy in the EU Taxonomy would have been a positive signal for the whole waste management sector.