Dedicated Teams
Members of the Global WtERT Council include universities and research institutions from over 30 countries around the world and recognized as one of the world’s foremost research centers on sustainable waste management
Academic & Industry Partners
WtERT brings together academia and managers from industry to advance sustainable waste management.
Global Know-how
Since 1997, Our team has studied all existing methods for managing post-recycling urban wastes around the world.
Focus On Innovation & Research
In the last decade, GWC has published over one hundred papers and theses on many aspects of sustainable energy and sustainable waste management
Engagement in the SDGs
It is a graphical way of showing the priorities for managing solid wastes. The first priority is to avoid the generation of wastes (e.g., reduced consumption of goods, less packaging) followed by recycling (paper, metals, plastics) and composting of source-separated organic wastes, followed by combustion with energy recovery (“waste-to-energy”), and finally landfilling. However, not all landfills are the same. Modern “sanitary” landfills require a serious investment and effort to protect surface and ground water and to collect landfill gas (LFG) and use it to generate energy. Therefore, the expanded hierarchy of waste management differentiates between better and worse types of landfills as illustrated below.
Waste to Energy (WTE)
Waste to energy (WTE) power plants, such as the one shown above, use as fuel municipal solid wastes (MSW) to generate electricity or provide district or industrial heating. Metals and minerals are recovered from the WTE ash. There are over one thousand WTE plants worldwide fueled by three hundred million tons of wastes.
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Gasification
is the process of converting waste into a gaseous fuel (called syngas) by exposure to high temperatures in the presence of oxygen or steam.
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Solid Recovered Fuel
Wastes can be separated to recyclable and combustible materials. The latter are called refuse derived fuel (RDF), combusted in WTE power plants, and solid recovered fuel (SRF), used in cement kilns.
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Pyrolysis
High heating value wastes, such as plastics, rubber, etc. are thermally decomposed, in the absence of oxygen, to form liquid fuels.
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Reasearch & Analysis
We running situation with professionalism and expertise, and in identifying strongly with their outcome. This sense of responsibility means we always strive to add value.
Creative Solutions
Our approach is distinctly innovative. We constantly seek new ways to resolve environmental hazard in waste. We also look to get the most out of advances in digitalisation.
Building
We specially select teams for every project, to ensure each event gets the attention of the people who have the most relevant technical skills, languages and knowledge.
Project Launch
We running projects with professionalism and expertise, and in identifying strongly with their outcome. This sense of responsibility means we always strive to add value.
Check out the volume “Recovery of Materials and Energy from Urban Wastes, from Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (2e) series, edited by Nickolas J. Themelis & A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability as it applies to engineering and methods for implementation of sustainable practices. Edited by Catherine Mulligan
The Guidebook for the Application of Waste to Energy Technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean, a new Earth Engineering Center major contribution to the WTE literature, was sponsored by InterAmerican Development Bank.
Research review published by Prof. Marco Castaldi updates resources for the waste industry, policymakers, as well residents, and highlights the importance of waste-to-energy to reduce greenhouse gases and complement recycling.
