Municipal Incineration Articles & Analysis

The Minister for Environment in Ireland is considering introducing an incineration levy and increasing landfill tax by the end of the year. Landfill tax in Ireland is currently €20 per tonne and John Gormley is currently looking at advice that would see the landfill tax double in the short term, and eventually quadruple. An ongoing independent international review of regional waste plans is ...

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Ask people to name what they would describe as their dream island destination and the chances are that The Maldives would be up there near the top of the list. Yet the ugly truth behind those idyllic palm fringed beaches, clear seas and luxury designer chalets is that almost within a stone’s throw there is an unfolding apocalyptical nightmare of mounting waste. The problem developing ...

By Matthews Environmental Solutions

New waste PFI deals are likely to struggle to attract significant commercial funding, according to an insider close to the Greater Manchester waste PFI. With £529.5m of funding eventually coming from public sources in the form of either direct finance or loans, the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority PFI deal has proven extremely difficult to finance from commercial lenders. The source ...

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

With an order backlog of 570 million Euro (IFRS) FISIA BABCOCK ENVIRONMENT GmbH (FBE) has started in the new financial year. The development of order input and turnover of the technology company was definitely more positive than expected, explained Managing Directors Dr. Gian Paolo Maccone and Dr. Gert Riemenschneider. The sales revenue increased by 70 million up to a total amount of more than ...

By Steinmüller Babcock Environment GmbH

The Commission’s long anticipated communication on waste-to-energy, is intended to ensure that the ‘recovery of energy from waste in the EU supports the objectives of the circular economy action plan’ and is guided by the waste hierarchy. The PHE project is looking at the health impacts of municipal waste incinerator emissions. It comes as the Commission also announced a joint ...

By GPT Waste Management Ltd

Tokyo, Oct 22, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. (MHIEC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received an order to construct and operate a municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration plant from a broad-based association of local municipal offices in central Iwate Prefecture, including Hanamaki ...

By Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)

The use of MWIs to dispose of materials such as plastic, glass and food waste is increasing in the UK due to EU restrictions on the use of landfill. The European Industrial Emissions Directive, which aims to protect the environment and human health, imposes strict limits on emissions of heavy metals and other pollutants from MWIs. However, the impact of MWI emissions on ambient air pollution is ...

By National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Tokyo, Aug 9, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. (MHIEC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received an order from Oita City, in Japan's Oita Prefecture, for modification work on a large-scale municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration plant at the city's Fukumune Environmental Center. The ...

By Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)

Protection of the climate and resources is one of the key topics at the Entsorga-Enteco the international trade fair for waste management and environmental technology from October 27th to 30th, 2009, in Cologne. Waste incineration makes an important contribution to coping with these two major challenges of this century. The role of waste incineration has changed thoroughly in the past few years. ...

By Koelnmesse GmbH

Phosphorus can be extracted in viable quantities from fly ash, a by-product created when municipal solid waste is burnt in incinerators, according to research conducted in Sweden. Sufficient phosphorus could be recovered from the country’s incinerators to meet 30% of the Swedish annual demand for mineral fertilisers, say the researchers. A substantial amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) ...

By European Commission, Environment DG

Tokyo, Oct 9, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. (MHIEC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received an order from Takarazuka City, in Japan's Hyogo Prefecture, for modification work to improve core equipment of a municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration plant at its Takarazuka Clean ...

By Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)

Ash from waste incineration can be made safer simply by mixing it with rice husks, water and other forms of waste ash at temperatures under 100 °C, according to new research. Once dried, the end product not only locks away toxic metals lead and zinc, but also stores carbon. Furthermore, it can be used in the polymer industry to lower costs, improve polymer properties and reduce the use of ...

By European Commission, Environment DG

The use of nanomaterials in consumer goods is growing, as is their presence in waste. A new study is the first to follow the fate of engineered nanoparticles through the entire waste incineration chain. The results indicate current filter technology is effective in removing nanoparticles from flue gas, but that nanoparticles also bind to residues, such as fly ash and slag, which eventually end up ...

By European Commission, Environment DG

The rapid depletion of the finite stock of fossil fuels places the spotlight on micro-renewables in residential and commercial applications. This technology will aid sustainable power production and lower dependency on conventional grid power by improving the competence of energy harvesting systems, without being detrimental to the environment. Analysis from Frost & Sullivan's Renewable ...

By Frost & Sullivan

What to do with all those non-recyclable plastic forks, toys and broken patio chairs in our garbage? Canada and its G7 partners are looking at burning such plastics for energy — but the idea is still controversial. And Sustane Technologies is building a plant in Nova Scotia that aims to convert plastic — especially film plastics, like plastic bags, that are hard to recycle ...

By Biomass Engineering & Equipment (BE&E)