As the global population grows and industrial activities intensify, the amount of waste generated has reached alarming levels. In response, cleantech innovations have emerged to address not only the ...

Alternatively, solid waste can be turned into gas (hydrogen and carbon monoxide). This process is known as gasification. Biological: use microorganisms to break down organic matter in the waste stream ...

The Dickinson County Board recently received an update from PenWin Industries on possibly establishing a gasification plant in northern Dickinson County. Gasification of waste is a process that ...

The Swedish company Plagazi AB will receive €29.5m in funding from the European Union Innovation Fund for its planned Gävle ...

Another way to convert waste to energy is through gasification, a process that melts plastics at very high temperatures in the near-absence of oxygen (which means toxins like dioxins and furans ...

In a blow to the idea of turning municipal waste into fuels and chemicals, the start-up Fulcrum BioEnergy laid off most of its staff and shut down its flagship plant near Reno, Nevada, in mid-May.

Cedar Hills Regional Landfill, which is the only active landfill in King County, is set to close in about 2040. Read Story ...

Across the world, several waste gasification processes have been proposed, but few have yet been built and tested, and only a handful have been implemented as plants processing real waste ...