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Waste Management Sells Waste-to-Energy Unit for $1.94 Billion

July 29, 2014August 6, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

Waste Management has agreed to sell Wheelabrator Technologies to an affiliate of Energy Capital Partners for $1.94 billion in cash. Wheelabrator Technologies (WTI) owns or operates 17 waste-to-energy facilities and four independent power-producing plants in the US that process more than 7.5 million tons of waste and have a combined ... Read more »

2MW Food-Waste-to-Energy Plant Constructed

July 18, 2014July 21, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Construction work on UK anaerobic digestion facility developer Tamar Energy’s 2 MW food waste recycling facility has been completed, according to GPT Waste, the UK’s largest independent provider of waste management services. The 45,000 metric ton per year waste-to-energy facility is now being commissioned, with the first electricity generation from ... Read more »

GE to Acquire Monsal, Expand Wastewater Services

July 7, 2014July 9, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric has agreed to acquire Monsal, a private UK-based water, waste, advanced anaerobic digestion and integrated biogas-to-energy business. With Monsal’s advanced anaerobic digestion technology and industry knowledge, GE will be able to help municipalities and industrial manufacturers shift from disposing wastewater treatment byproducts to generating renewable energy and other ... Read more »

Waste Management Phoenix Open Achieves Zero Waste

July 1, 2014July 1, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Waste Management Phoenix Open has, for the second consecutive year, diverted 100 percent of waste away from landfills amid this year’s record attendance of 563,008 fans. As part of its Zero Waste Challenge, the 2014 Waste Management Phoenix Open earned UL Environment’s landfill waste diversion, or Zero Waste to ... Read more »

39 Eaton Facilities Achieve Zero Waste

June 30, 2014June 30, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Thirty-nine Eaton manufacturing facilities around the globe have achieved zero waste, according to the power management company, which in 2013 reduced its landfilled wastes by about 18 percent, or 4,900 metric tons, as part of a global zero waste-to-landfill program. Eaton defines zero waste-to-landfill as consistently achieving a landfill waste ... Read more »

Swine Waste-to-Energy System Operating at Capacity

June 30, 2014June 30, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The 600 kW Storms Hog Power facility — North Carolina’s largest swine waste-to-energy system — is operating at full capacity. The plant at the Storms Hog Farm near Bladenboro, NC, has been in near constant operation since it came on line Oct. 4, 2013, and has sustained peak or near peak ... Read more »

Smart MSW Tech Revenue to Grow By $4 Billion

June 27, 2014June 26, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Annual smart municipal solid waste technology revenue will grow from $2.3 billion in 2014 to $6.5 billion in 2023 and will offer multiple opportunities to those in the MSW management industry, according to a report by Navigant Research. According to the report, two trends are expected to define the MSW ... Read more »

Bakery Achieves Landfill-Free Status

June 11, 2014June 11, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A Washington state bakery has achieved zero-waste status by recycling, reusing and repurposing all of its waste. Franz Bakery, a 108-year-old family-owned company, eliminated waste at its Spokane bakery through a recycling program that encompasses all aspects of its operations, including product and packaging waste, scrap metals, used equipment lubricant ... Read more »

Enerkem Turns Garbage into Chemicals, Fuel

June 6, 2014June 5, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Waste-to-ethanol company Enerkem has inaugurated its first full-scale municipal waste-to-biofuels and chemicals facility in Edmonton, Alberta (pictured). This facility, operated by Enerkem Alberta Biofuels, is among the world’s first commercial facilities to be built for the production of renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels. The facility will have a production capacity ... Read more »

RDX Technologies Fuel from Waste Cuts GHGs 85%

May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Omega Protein has reduced sulfur emissions by 80 percent and greenhouse gas emissions by 85 percent at its Virginia facility since transitioning from petroleum oil to RDX Technologies’ lower-cost renewable fuel derived from everyday food and oils found in wastewater. RDX Technologies’ new fuel source is an EPA-approved, carbon-neutral Renewable ... Read more »

PwC: Stockholm, Sydney Top Sustainable City Ranking

May 20, 2014May 20, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

Stockholm and Sydney are the most sustainable cities in the world, a ranking driven by air quality, recycled waste efforts and public park space, according to a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report. The firm’s sixth edition of the Cities of Opportunity report, which ranks the top 30 cities from across the globe, measures 10 key indicators including ... Read more »

Chevron Waste-to-Energy Plant to Save $27M

May 16, 2014May 21, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chevron Energy Solutions will design and build a waste-to-energy plant at Broward County, Fla.’s wastewater treatment facility. The project, which will generate electricity from fats, oils and grease (FOG), is expected to generate almost 2MW of power, reduce electricity usage by over 30 percent and save the county nearly $27 ... Read more »

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