Hydrogen is unlikely to become the sole energy carrier of the future, but it has an important role to play in a diversified energy landscape. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based ...

Beset by a new state environmental law that’s seeking to severely cut down on organic waste that ends up in landfills, the city of Napa's Solid Waste and Recycling Division is exploring two new ...

We produce over 2 billion tons of waste per year, a number that's expected to grow by 70% by 2050. We've long sought ways to turn all this waste into energy, but this has usually meant incineration - ...

Waste gasification, a process for converting garbage into fuel and electricity without incinerating it, may be a step closer to large-scale commercialization. Last week, Houston’s Waste Management, a ...

ALBANY -- As the city of Albany and surrounding communities decide what to do with their garbage as part of a long-term solid waste management and recycling plan, that dirty word "incineration" is ...

Co-gasification of plastic and biomass waste is a thermochemical route that combines two abundant waste streams in a single reactor to produce a high-energy synthesis gas. By subjecting mixed plastic ...

Australia’s recycling crisis needs us to look into waste management options beyond just recycling and landfilling. Some of our waste, like paper or organic matter, can be composted. Some, like glass, ...

Pyrolysis and gasification represent two complementary thermochemical pathways for converting solid waste—ranging from municipal refuse and sewage sludge to agricultural residues and plastics—into ...

Peel Environmental has signed an agreement for the development of up to 11 plants designed to produce hydrogen through small-scale gasification technology using plastic waste as a feedstock. An aerial ...

A firm is appealing against Cumberland Council's decision to reject plans for a waste-to-energy plant.

Towns in central and northern Maine were seeking a workable alternative to landfills and incinerators when they engaged Fiberight to build a municipal solid-waste-processing unit in the town of ...