Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Expanded capabilities will improve traditional clinical waste hierarchy positions and can lower the carbon emissions by around 70% compared to existing services Veolia says it has expanded its medical waste management capabilities with the aim of addressing key issues for the healthcare sector and the NHS.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

There is a lot of latent energy in our waste. Whether that energy is turned into renewable fuels or clean electricity, it can reduce carbon emissions and resource depletion. The adage, ‘one man’s trash is another’s treasure, applies to the world of waste management.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Mayor of London’s development corporation, OPDC has been awarded £36 million from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to harness waste heat from the cooling of several data centres. It forms part of a wider £65m award from the GHNF to five projects across the UK. The Old Oak development will create 22,000 new jobs. ”

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Since 2022, the site has been primarily focused on nuclear waste processing and storage, and nuclear decommissioning (image credit: Dom Crayford , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The UK-Japan Civil Nuclear Research programme is a partnership between UK Research and Innovation and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

One of the first synthetic eFuel production units in Europe could be implemented at an Energy Recovery Plant near Porto. Deploying a seemingly innovative technology configuration and design, the group behind it, LIPOR, suggests it is set to revolutionize the waste-to-energy industry while simultaneously decarbonizing the aviation sector.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

There were 12 winners at the annual “VIBES – Scottish Environment Business Awards” in Glasgow on Tuesday 1 November, recognising innovations including a system for using treated wastewater to provide heating, and a solution that empowers homeowners in striving for net zero. Engaging Scotland Award – The Highland Council.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

A UK-based demonstration plant that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online in May 2022. The Centre for Process Innovation UK is expected to join soon as a new project partner. Watch this space!”.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR) project is presented as a cutting-edge circular economy solution for a normally landfilled waste material. A seemingly ground-breaking solution allows hard-to-recycle automotive shredder residue (ASR) to be used to deliver renewable energy and reduce waste-to-landfill.

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Jim Conca

MAY 31, 2021

The Finnish waste management company, Posiva Oy, announced the start of excavation on their deep geologic nuclear waste repository for their spent nuclear fuel. Operation of the repository is expected to begin in 2023. The total cost estimate is about €2.6 billion ($3.4 billion).

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

Construction has commenced on a new energy storage facility in Scotland, part of a drive to maximise the efficacy of renewables and reduce the cost of wasted wind to consumers. “The Kilmarnock South project by Zenobē represents a major step forward in battery storage innovation and will deliver significant benefits to households.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Environmentally responsible decommissioning company, CessCon Decom, has teamed up with researchers at Abertay University to explore how marine growth – a waste by-product of the decommissioning process – can be recycled and reused. The results of this work will help advise follow-on steps of the project.”.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 15, 2024

This change is driven by the urgent need to address climate change, a global challenge that demands innovative solutions across all industries.    A critical aspect of this innovation is the integration of green technologies, such as those developed by Kaltra, a leader in thermal management solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

Powerhouse Energy Group PLC (PHE), a firm commercialising syngas and hydrogen production from non-recyclable waste plastic, has unveiled (on 24 May) plans to create a UK based, Global Technology and Innovation Centre (GTIC), which it aims to open in early 2023.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Recycling and resource management firm Viridor has unveiled its “Vision for Zero” – a plan to reduce (to zero) the amount of plastic waste exported from the UK. If five state-of-the-art plastic recycling plants, similar to the Avonmouth plant, were built, plastic waste exports from the UK could end. An estimated c.1.3[i]

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2023

Polyethylene pipes A new total waste management partnership brings together plastic pipeline solutions manufacturer Radius Systems and waste management expert Axil Integrated Services (Axil). As part of this project, Axil is implementing its HazPod solution which the firm claims limits repacking of hazardous waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The 50 Emerging Technologies report from Innovate UK – the UK’s innovation agency – brings together ”the most exciting new technological breakthroughs that could be part of our everyday lives”, says the group. While only in their infancy, they’re described in the report as having major potential to transform our lives.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In what seems a major step of recognition for the HERU energy-from-waste domestic heating system – a widely lauded British Greentech innovation – the firm has announced a new partnership with Europe’s largest industrial manufacturing company, Siemens. HERU founder Nik Spencer with the Hybrid Water Heating System.

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GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

The future of the fashion industry requires innovative circular systems. Agricultural waste from food crops either is traditionally left to rot or is burned, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. This is more than just a better way to produce fiber from food crop waste. Food Waste. Nicole Pamani.

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Jim Conca

JUNE 7, 2020

During a virtual meeting held by Southern California Edison's Community Engagement Panel, experts considered a number of Doomsday Scenarios that could threaten the nuclear waste stored at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant. But things got weird with fear of things like short-range missiles.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Rise in demand for incineration process and growth in public WtE expenditure drive the growth of the global waste to energy market. Based on technology, the thermal segment dominated the market.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) published the Scottish Waste From All Sources 2022 Official Statistics on 26 March, which provide details on waste from Scottish households, businesses and public services. million tonnes of waste, with 62.3% of all wastes ending up in landfill, for an all-time low figure of 2.30

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 15, 2024

Waste collection trucks are demonstrated in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and waste heat from data centres is set to heat swimming pools in the UK. Veolia now plans to expand the trial and test it out on the streets, using Westminster council collection vehicles to pilot the innovation. Have you read?

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 5, 2023

While innovations are necessary—and are currently being developed—to reduce the sector’s reliance on fossil fuels, we can take immediate action through waste-heat-to-power (WHP) technology. This process captures waste heat from industrial facilities and converts it to usable power, rather than letting it escape into the atmosphere.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Innovative plant process management techniques have emerged as the driving force behind this transformation, fostering efficiency, reducing environmental impact and ensuring long-term viability. Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in plant management is an innovative approach gaining momentum.

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Jim Conca

MAY 10, 2021

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board just put out six overarching recommendations for the DOE’s nuclear waste program. Hopefully they won’t be ignored like the last set from the Blue Ribbon Commission that were similar.

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Jim Conca

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The best, safest, least expensive solution to nuclear waste gets a near-unanimous bipartisan negative vote from the Texas Legislature. Lawmakers banned storage of high-level radioactive waste in Texas, including spent nuclear fuel, at their approved nuclear waste disposal site near Andrews, Texas.

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FuelCellsWorks

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Closed Loop Partners, we focus on investing in the circular economy––advancing solutions that reduce waste through material reduction, alternative materials, reuse and end-of-life solutions like recycling. Through our work,

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

Researchers have demonstrated a novel system for transforming captured carbon and plastic waste into sustainable fuels and other valuable chemicals using solar energy. But, if we add plastic waste to the system, the plastic donates electrons to the CO 2. Capturing and using CO 2 from the air makes the chemistry more difficult.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2023

A first-of-its-kind ‘atmospheric water harvester’ has secured funding from Innovate UK. While the innovators saw a broad range of applications for their technology, the University’s Entrepreneur in Residence helped them focus their thinking and shaped their business proposition.

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Jim Conca

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The effects may be profound, from a loss of $8 billion in NWFund revenues to the orphaning of their nuclear waste. Since 2012, 12 commercial reactors have shut down in the U.S., with 27 more planned by 2026, a loss of at least 37,000 MW of capacity and about 5 trillion kWhs from their expected life.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Can big data, AI and chemical footprinting help the renewable energy sector avoid a toxic waste legacy? But can we also use these breakthrough technologies to accelerate the development of safer, more sustainable materials for the renewable energy sector? . Safely meet demand for renewable energy technologies.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 30, 2024

PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGEO) continues to explore the use off innovative breakthrough technologies to further optimize their geothermal operations in Indonesia. Source: Kontan The post Pertamina harnessing innovative technologies to optimize geothermal operations first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2020

An Elland-based firm whose turbine-based device has global potential to slash CO2 emissions by converting waste heat into electricity, has been awarded the Institute of Physics (IOP) Business Start-up Award. That’s a tenfold improvement on the technology that’s been developed up to now.”.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

At the University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), scientists' innovative research to turn Kentucky waste coal into high-value carbon products has been published in the journal Carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

What appears to be the UK’s first hydrogen-fuelled waste collection vehicle was revealed on 17 February in Aberdeen, seemingly running on green hydrogen from existing refuelling infrastructure in the city.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 29, 2020

Resource management firm Veolia is highlighting how significant emissions reductions can be achieved by using energy recovery facilities, ERF, to dispose of the more than 61,000 tonnes of orange bagged clinical and infectious waste that arises each year in the UK. This process provides enough electricity for over 430,000 homes.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Six years after breaking ground, CopenHill—a waste-to-energy plant topped with a year-round ski slope—is officially open, marking a major milestone in Copenhagen’s journey to becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2025.

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