Organized by The Brazilian Association for Energy Recovery of Waste (ABREN), sister organization of The Global WtERT Council (GWC).

The event will have the participation of the Main Players, Industry Experts and Academia Representatives to discuss the main challenges and opportunities for the Waste-to-Energy sector in Brazil. It will give an opportunity to bring people together to discuss new directions and trends in the energy from waste sector.

Reda Kabbaj, Co-Chair of WtERT-Canada, will present the role of Waste-to-Energy in a circular economy society, including the concept of industrial ecology where an industry such as Waste-to-Energy supplies its by-product in form of steam or electricity to power another industry with case-studies from Canada, Ethiopia as well the development of such a concept in Morocco.

For further information about the event, please visit ABREN’s webpage.

“…100% recycling has not been possible to achieve even after decades of evolution in the waste management industry, aimed at maximising diversion of wastes from WtE plants and landfills. Harmful contaminants are always collected alongside the valuables and must be segregated to protect man and the environment. Apart from glass and metals, the valuables themselves may lose their original properties and need to be excluded from the cycle. For these residuals, a safe final treatment or disposal method must be available in order to protect public health. The only options are WtE for organic substances and landfilling for minerals and hazardous residues.<…>

Therefore, WtE is a necessary and compatible partner of recycling, and not a competitor that some might claim. A modern recycling economy is reliant on ecologically friendly and affordable treatment options for the residues arising from the recycling processes.

WtE is also indispensable for the treatment of another large and problematic fraction: the residual waste. These remainders of our civilisation have to be treated in an environmentally sound manner. Modern WtE plants are the method of choice and the only reasonable option for this purpose in locations with sufficiently dense populations and with the resources and technical talent to build and operate such plants.”

Full Editorial Bellow

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0734242X20918453

The study, ” 2014 Energy and Economic Value of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), including and Non-recycled Plastics (NRP), Currently Landfilled in the Fifty States,” found that the recovery of resources from waste, and hence, diverted from landfill, in the United States increased between 2008 and 2011.  The recycling of materials from MSW improved by 18.5 million tons, and the tonnage of materials processed by WTE facilities grew by 3.8 million tons during this period.

Key statistics from the study are illustrated in a new infographic bellow

The EEC study found that:

• If we had the capacity to divert all of the solid waste that was landfilled in 2011 to waste-to-energy facilities,[i] we could generate enough electricity to supply about 13.8 million households[ii], or 12 percent of the entire United States.
• If just the non-recycled plastics  in solid waste were to be source-separated and converted through today’s plastics-to-oil technologies into fuel oil[iii], they could produce 135 million barrels of oil per year – or 5.7 billion gallons of gasoline, enough to fuel 8.9 million cars
• If we could convert our non-recycled waste to alternative energy instead of landfilling it, we could preserve more than 6,000 acres of open space every year that would otherwise be used to store garbage.

In a nutshell, EEC found that our everyday trash is an abundant, domestic energy resource, and that using more of today’s technologies to unlock that energy could also bring about environmental benefits, such as lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and making better use of energy than burying it in a landfill.

This volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second edition, provides a comprehensive overview of complementary strategies for dealing with waste in and around urban areas: Waste-to-energy power plants (WTEs) and recycling. Chapters in this volume describe how these plants can be built within or near cities to transform the non-recycled residues of society into electricity and heat, and the recovery of metals using recycling technology and management techniques. The latter includes resource recovery from construction and demolition and electronic waste streams. 

• Provides an excellent example of industrial ecology where technology mimics the age-old ecological cycle
• Introduces the importance of combining recycling and waste to energy (WTE) in attaining sustainable waste management
• Describes in detail the dominant WTE technologies of moving grate and circulating fluid bed
• Covers the use of non-recycled plastics and paper, and other “wastes” as alternative fuels in cement plants
• Includes energy from both renewable and non-renewable waste sources

With nearly one thousand WTE plants worldwide, waste incineration has become increasingly important as a means of closing the materials life- cycle loop. China leads in the beneficial use of these residues with about 30 new WTEs built in each of the last three years, and with plans for at least another 300 with one or more in each large city. In addition, increasing numbers of cement plants use “waste” materials as alternative fuels. Since currently all of these plants combust less than 20% of the available wastes, and the remainder ends up in landfills or dumps, this sector represents a huge market in the making. This comprehensive reference is suitable for readers just entering the field, but also offers new insights for advanced researchers, industry experts, and decision makers.

Some people are more accident-prone than others, and some are less sensitive to threats. Some venture into riskier parts of the internet. Some need to protect very valuable information. All these factors should be taken into account. A risk-aware Windows user can probably survive without any anti-virus software at all. I ran Windows XP for a year to try to prove it. Less knowledgeable users can get their PCs infected no matter how much protection you give them.

• That’s no longer the case
• Today’s malware is written by professionals
• They are less interested in virusest
• They are interested in collecting financial information
• They know they can blackmail people into paying for something

Sofware can’t protect people from themselves

Some need to protect very valuable information. All these factors should be taken into account. A risk-aware Windows user can probably survive without any anti-virus software at all. I ran Windows XP for a year to try to prove it. Less knowledgeable users can get their PCs infected no matter how much protection you give them. Software can’t protect people from themselves.

The purpose of an Industrial Safety Project carried out by GTG Ingenieros is to give the client the guarantee of obtaining with a high level.

The development of an Industrial Safety Project in GTG INGENIEROS involves the movement of the personnel of the Engineering department to the facilities of our customers to offer the best choice.