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The Ocean Cleanup. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Recology Home - Compost, Recycling, & Landfill - Collection & Processing. Dolav Plastic Products - Waste Containers. Detectable material boxes and Antimicrobial boxes Dolav innovation is proud to show two new solutions for the food industry Dolav Antimicrobial Box Pallets Protects against contamination from microbes at any stage of the supply chain.

Dolav Plastic Products - Waste Containers

Offers permanent protection from microbes - Lasts for a Box Pallet’s lifetime! Increase shelf life of food!!! Detectable Material boxes Dolav solution to avoid plastic objects inside food products Dolav is proud to present a new development of a boxpallet containing magnetic material.This allows the identification of plastic foreign objects infood products using a metal detector.The solution complies with FDA guidelines on foreignobjects in food products. The Power of Rubbish: Making Money from Waste. Recently, some crazy scientists in Bristol, UK have discovered how to charge their smartphones with their own pee.

The Power of Rubbish: Making Money from Waste

By using micro-organisms which feed off their urine and generate electrons as a by-product, they have managed to produce enough electricity to charge a phone or power some lights. Although we can question the utility of this technology, considering the very small amount of energy produced, there may still be method to these scientists’ “madness”. People generate millions of tons of waste every day, and with rapid urbanization and population growth, this will only increase.

Urban areas already account for 75% of the world’s natural resource consumption and produce 50% of global waste. In most countries, especially low- and middle-income nations, the waste management systems currently used to collect, process and recycle this waste are insufficient and cannot meet demand. Recovering energy, nutrients and water Rubbish can also be reused to grow food. Press Release: Is waste the next big business opportunity? Humans generate heaps of waste every day.

Press Release: Is waste the next big business opportunity?

Waste rich in energy, nutrients, or water. Most of it gets flushed down the drain, dumped in landfill sites, burned or even abandoned in public spaces or nature. Meanwhile, millions of farmers struggle with depleted soils and lack of water. A new 800-page book profiles multiple ways to harness this waste to help fill the world’s food and energy needs. Mobile Recycler – Biocycler – Uses Living Organisms to Bind Construction Waste Into Bricks – Smart Cities Connect. Are capped landfills and solar panels a natural match? Waste toilet-paper can be used to generate electricity, says study.

Researchers say the process could tackle the problems of overflowing municipal landfills and dependency on fossil fuels.

Waste toilet-paper can be used to generate electricity, says study

London: Waste toilet paper can be used to generate renewable electricity through a two-step process at a cost comparable to residential solar power installations, scientists say. If implemented, the process could tackle the problems of overflowing municipal landfills and dependency on fossil fuels. Waste toilet paper is not often considered an asset. Yet it is a rich source of carbon, containing 70-80 per cent of cellulose on a dry basis. On average, people in Western Europe produce 10-14 kilogrammes (kg) waste toilet paper per person per year.

Circular cities and the closed-loop economy. Several cities have joined forces to chart their path to a future where they will create no waste and everything will be reused or recycled endlessly.

Circular cities and the closed-loop economy

Believe it or not, there is money in this, and it has a name: the closed loop economy. The closed loop economy and cities By 2050, 75 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities and their rapid growth is putting enormous pressure on resources, carrying capacities, and quality of life. Cities already produce half of global waste and 60-80 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. Research Project for Using Biochar to Improve Anaerobic Digestion to Scale Up « Waste to Energy « Waste Management World.

Lemont, Illinois based science and engineering research centre, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), has developed technology that synergistically uses two waste biomass streams to generate two bioproducts and enhance the process of anaerobic digestion.

Research Project for Using Biochar to Improve Anaerobic Digestion to Scale Up « Waste to Energy « Waste Management World

According to the organisation, the digestion of wastewater can be improved sludge by incorporating biomass-derived, carbon-sequestering char within the digester, thus creating pipeline-quality renewable natural gas while using the remaining biosolids for a high-quality fertiliser. With funding from the U.S. How garbage trucks could become the eyes and ears of cities. Editor's Note: This piece was written by Michael Allegretti, SVP of policy & strategic initiatives at Rubicon Global.

How garbage trucks could become the eyes and ears of cities

The opinions represented in this piece are independent of Smart Cities Dive's views. Government leaders today face high volumes of workflow and citizen demand with increasingly tight budgets. Continuing the conversation on efficiency and the water-energy nexus. How much energy does it take to fill a glass with drinking water?

Continuing the conversation on efficiency and the water-energy nexus

If you take into account the energy to transport the water from its source through the treatment and distribution process and into your faucet, there’s a lot of embedded energy that goes into that glass of water. And that’s not even getting into any energy used in the wastewater treatment process. It’s a simple question, but a challenging one to answer. It’s valuable, though, for water utilities to better understand the embedded energy in their systems so they can reduce costs, improve energy efficiency, and quantify the avoided energy and pollution savings that accrue from water efficiency programs. Wastewater Treatment Technology for Municipalities. ANDRITZ GROUP. Waste Not, Want Not – Solid Waste at the Heart of Sustainable Development. For the residents of Rosario, Argentina, good solid waste management means more than just a clean city.

Waste Not, Want Not – Solid Waste at the Heart of Sustainable Development

Rosario’s approach to garbage has improved the economy and environment with, according to the city’s mayor, “a direct impact on what matters most: the quality of life of urban residents.” Sweden and San Francisco point the way to zero waste future. We celebrate the Swedes for many reasons.

Sweden and San Francisco point the way to zero waste future

They invented the pacemaker, the flat screen monitor, the zipper. 4 Cities That Are Getting Rid Of All Of Their Garbage. New York City not too long ago had a landfill you could see from space. Now it has a plan to get to "zero waste" in the next 15 years—a task that might seem impossible to anyone who has wandered the city’s litter-strewn streets on a weekend and tried to find a public trash can that’s not overflowing. So how does the nation’s largest city go about getting rid of its garbage? World's largest waste-to-energy plant to be built in Shenzen, China. VIDEO: World’s Biggest Waste to Energy Plant to be Built in China - Solid Waste & recycling.

American Recycler Newspaper - Salvage, Waste and Recycling Articles and Equipment. CHP energy; Renewable thermal and electric power; Borealis Wood Power Corp. This Is What Happens To Trash In Sweden…Wow Didn’t See That Coming.