Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

A radical rethink of recycling and waste policy is required to put the UK on a more sustainable path, according to a new report from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). The primary premise of its replacement must acknowledge that reducing or preventing waste of all types is paramount.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In an apparent first of its kind within the UK, a pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Northumberland has been equipped with an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant to recycle waste solvents into low carbon gas, which is being injected into the national gas grid. It will also produce enough energy to power an equivalent of 6,000 homes.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

Perthshire waste management specialist Binn Group has successfully secured PAS 402 certification, and as the firm’s announcement adds, this makes it the only Scottish company to currently hold the quality standard for resource management sector operators. Binn Group is uniquely established as the pathfinder for the scheme in Scotland.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2023

Innovative waste processing technology Juno began processing waste from a municipality in Seattle in February, part of a 12-week mixed waste processing pilot project. During the pilot, Juno® will process municipal solid waste from King County.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

The study explores how three types of waste production — municipal solid waste, wastewater, and greenhouse gas emissions — scale with city size (image credit: Elisa Heinrich Mora). A recent study attempts to predict the future state of urban ecosystems, and suggests the need for a new science of waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A recent project blends leftover cooking oil, lamb fat and agricultural waste to develop a cleaner fuel for ships. The researchers – from Aston University – have blended mixed waste pellets with either used oil or animal fat to develop a form of energy which meets international marine fuel standards.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In what appears to be a major stride towards sustainable industrial fermentation, a team of researchers has made advancements in the purification of isopropanol and acetone from the fermentation of waste gases. The team are now turning their attention to the purification of other high-value chemicals.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

It will buy waste biomass from local poultry farmers and transform it into biochar. By using this waste biomass as a pyrolysis feedstock, we turn a problem into a revenue stream for local farmers,” said Giles Welch, CEO of Onnu. This is the only genuinely sustainable solution to the problems facing the Wye Valley.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 9, 2022

All those who collect, transport, store treat and dispose of healthcare waste are being encouraged to respond to a consultation on its storage and treatment from Scotland’s environmental regulator. SEPA’s initial focus will be on sites primarily dealing with healthcare waste. ” Key changes. Authorisation reviews.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

They do this by burrowing into waste wood and converting it into highly-nutritious protein. The report is published today in the journal Sustainable Agriculture. The researchers found that the levels of Vitamin B12 in the Naked Clams were higher than in most other bivalves – and almost twice the amount found in blue mussels.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

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

JANUARY 27, 2022

Tech start-up AnyWaste.Com says it is creating a platform to fight the problem of where our waste goes and what happens to it. The system is “a standout option to help waste processors, brokers and producers of waste by simplifying the process,” says the firm. Be a waste hero. Be a AnyWaste hero!

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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. ” .” ”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

Household food waste project will see Council partnering with two food waste apps – OLIO & Kitche. The Bexley Household Food Waste Project launched on 2 March and will run through to the summer. Food waste is still at a dangerously high level, which is why initiatives like this are so important. www.kitche.co.

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POWER Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Nuclear energy has long been a topic of debate due to concerns about its environmental impact and the disposal of nuclear waste. However, a paradigm shift is underway that could […] The post The Possibilities of Recycling Nuclear Fissile Waste appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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POWER Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Waste-to-energy (WtE) facilities have the potential to become one of the most sustainable and reliable forms of energy creation on the planet, but they have their challenges. The most eco-conscious […] The post Maximizing Corrosion Prevention in Waste-to-Energy Plants appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

In recent decades, exports of waste to non-European countries have risen steadily, pushing the waste issue far away but failing to properly address it. Repeated abuses in international waste shipments have highlighted the need for Europe to take care of its waste under EU environmental standards.

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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. The researchers said they were able to capture and concentrate the CO 2 and convert it into sustainable fuel.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Propylene or polyethene pellets in a waste plastic recycling machine. Non-household end-use plastic waste is generated by ‘end-users’ from commercial activities (e.g., By employing cost-benefit analysis and real-world data, we’ve demonstrated that sustainable solutions are not only possible but economically attractive.”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

A Fortum waste-to-energy plant in Brista, Sweden. A trade group comprising European suppliers of waste-to-energy technology, ESWET welcomed a recent opportunity to contribute to the EU Emissions Trading System’s revision (EU ETS). It is likely to trigger more landfilling of non-recyclable waste and more use of fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Researchers in Turkey have proposed a new sustainable solution for winery waste. This prompted us to investigate the potential for wine lees – an industrial waste – to be used as a natural colour agent and a bioactive component in jelly-type soft confectionery.’ Filtered wine lees (image credit: Dr Gülce Bedis Kaynarca).

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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

AUGUST 3, 2022

The new synthesis procedure can seemingly convert fish scales obtained from fish waste into a useful carbon-based nanomaterial. In a recent study published in Green Chemistry , a team of scientists from Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan found a simple and convenient way to turn fish waste into extremely high-quality CNOs.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

A new study looks at the use of gold extracted from electronic waste as catalysts for reactions that could be applied to making medicines. Re-using gold from electronic waste prevents it from being lost to landfill, and using this reclaimed gold for drug manufacture reduces the need to mine new materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A US group is developing a technology combining AI and spectroscopy, to analyze municipal solid waste in-situ and in real-time – a cost- and time-effective approach that they say could pave the way to increased waste-to-bioenergy production. closer to a waste-processing approach that is sustainable.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Quick thinking and agility has helped waste management companies survive and even prosper during lockdown, says Aaron Baker, an investor at BGF, an investment firm which has backed a number of firms in the waste sector. Could waste management businesses work effectively when the majority of their staff were home-based?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

But it will only be sustainable if we can find cost-effective routes to recycling. However, this also means that the amount of CFRP/CFRTP waste is also increasing rapidly. Valued for their combination of light weight and strength, CFRPs are increasingly deployed in sectors incuding automotive, aerospace and renewable energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Its gas-like penetration power makes it a superior medium to decompose mixtures of complex waste plastics into value-added materials, which are feedstock for manufacturing new plastics. The technology will provide a sustainable alternative to fossil oil derived feedstocks with no CO2, emissions in the production or disposal phases.

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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 products will be used in the production of several high-performance bio-based materials. Watch this space!”.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Zero Waste Scotland’s Site Waste Reduction Protocol is designed by industry specialists The excel-based calculator tool is specifically designed to tackle material waste in construction Evidence shows that by reducing wasteful consumption and making construction more circular we could reduce Scotland’s overall material use by 11.2%

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

Joseph Doherty is Managing Director of waste management firm Re-Gen Waste. The way that waste in Northern Ireland will be handled over the next few years will change dramatically following consultations by Defra and the UK’s devolved administrations, according to Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

An 11-strong European consortium has secured funding for a project to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of generating waste sugars derived from household waste and producing a range of high-performance bio-based materials and products. Increase sustainability in key sectors such as construction.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2024

Researchers at the University of Sussex have identified electrical properties within gypsum nanomaterials – a development said to offer a promising avenue to developing sustainable habitation on Mars, where there is an abundance of the mineral. This produces a byproduct called anhydrite — conventionally considered a waste material.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A new campaign calls for multi-sector collaboration to tackle the e-waste crisis and drive behaviour change amongst young people. Despite a growing e-waste crisis, 45% of young people have never recycled a phone. Despite a growing e-waste crisis, 45% of young people have never recycled a phone.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

New product aims to meet one quarter of the UK demand by using waste streams from the paper industry. Resource management company Veolia says it is extending sustainability for the farming industry with the introduction of a new poultry bedding solution for farmers.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

Recovering the critical raw materials residing within electronic waste will require investment, and a legal framework to incentivise this will be essential, say the authors (image credit: Steve Janosik , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 CEWASTE project recommendations include: Legislate a requirement to recycle specific critical raw materials in e-waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Recycling Association has warned that waste crime will continue to happen, even if exports of plastics for recycling are banned. The group’s chief executive Simon Ellin said: “Banning plastic exports to solve waste crime would be like trying to crack a nut with a sledgehammer.

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