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E-waste in India heading to slums
India's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research released a study this week that says e-waste is growing at a rate of 10 percent a year in India, with 95 percent headed to urban slums for segregating, dismantling and recycling in potentially hazardous conditions - Read More
Brewery Waste Turned into Fish food, Thanks to Microbes
Sludge from Brewery waste can be turned into bacterial protein rich fish food?We can convert 30,000 to 35,000 pounds of bacterial protein everyday," says Logan. "Regular fish meal has 40 percent protein?ours has 65 percent protein.? Best of all, the entire set-up to accomplish this task is incredibly low cost and low maintenance for the brewery....interesting stuff...what was earlier waste is not turned into a value-added product, and at a super low cost, using microbes! - Read More
Vacuum biogas toilets
A promising innovation is the vacuum-biogas toilet, in which waste is sucked into a vacuum sewer system, and then transferred to a local biogas plant. Recent pilot projects have tried this technology in settlements in Holland and Germany. Hamburg is in the planning phase for a project that would give vacuum-biogas toilets to 2,000 houses - Read More
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Topics : Bioenergy
Separating urine and feces is a useful idea
Just as we separate plastic, cardboard, and newspaper, says Rosemarin, we should separate urine, feces, and greywater. As a first step down this road, some companies are producing new types of toilets. One idea, pioneered in Sweden, is known as urine diversion. The basic concept is that the toilet has two receptacles for the different kinds of waste. - Read More
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Topics : Waste to Energy
Landfills are number one contributor of methane
landfills, they contribute to the production of methane, which is released into the atmosphere as greenhouse gas emissions. Landfills are the number-one generator of man-made methane into the atmosphere, according to the EPA.
Small digesters for waste breakdown
Small digesters (devices that break down waste by feeding it to anaerobic bacteria) exist in many places worldwide, primarily in places where power is used onsite
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Topics : Bioenergy
India’s ITC plans to take its “Wealth Out of Waste” (WOW) programme across the country. WOW has been
(Oct 2008) India’s ITC plans to take its “Wealth Out of Waste” (WOW) programme across the country. WOW has been designed to manage waste from individual households as well as civic bodies. ITC will collect dry recyclable waste from households. A recent study by ITC showed that on an average, an Indian city generates around 2,500 tonnes of waste every day. Since there is hardly any recycling, the waste is used as landfill, causing large scale air and water pollution, the study says. - Read More
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Topics : Waste to Energy
Amsterdam uses garbage to light up the city
The success of a waste-to-energy project in far-away Amsterdam could solve the most pressing problem of Indian cities and towns, which are grappling both with growing garbage pile-ups and power shortages. Using solid garbage as fuel, the Amsterdam’s Waste and Energy Company, or AEB, generates 1 million MWh of electricity yearly, which is used to run the city’s trams and the metro network, its street lighting, and designated public buildings. - Read More
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Topics : Waste to Energy
New Trash Riddance System Creates Energy and is Eco-friendly
A new conceptual trash riddance design claims to tackle one of our prime problems. The Electrolux appliance not only finds a good way to get rid of food waste, but it also has the potential to entirely replace LPG and is extremely eco-friendly. It is designed in a way that it immediately starts fermenting the load and creates methane that can be used as fuel for the gas range; the consequential waste is dried out by the appliance and composed in a tank at the bottom that can be disposed of later - Read More
Topics : Recycling