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WASTE ATLAS – 2014 report – the 50 biggest active dumpsites of the wor

This is the second Waste Atlas Report. After one year, 800 users of the Waste Atlas mobile app, more than 1,000 contributors, 5,500 downloads and 10,000 unique users of Waste Atlas, we are happy to a second emblematic report dedicated to the 50 biggest active dumpsites of the world Link …

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Copenhill, BIG’s skiable waste-to-energy power plant, gets sweeping new photos from Hufton + Crow

British architectural photography studio Hufton + Crow has released new images of the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)-designed Amager Bakke, a combined heat-and-power waste-to-energy power plant on the industrial outskirts of Copenhagen that famously doubles as a vertiginous outdoor urban recreational hub—a hub that’s no doubt getting plenty of good use …

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Waste not, want not: the future of Energy from Waste

A common complaint of the grumpy middle-aged European academic is the creeping Americanisation of language. An example often cited is ‘garbage’, although the pedants amongst us know that garbage was originally an English word that went to America with the pilgrims on the Mayflower and has only recently come back …

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Illegally shipped waste returned from Sri Lanka to UK

The Environment Agency has announced that a consignment of 21 waste containers, which was illegally shipped to Sri Lanka in 2017, has been successfully repatriated to its point of origin in the UK.e all the water sources. Link to full article

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Terex Ecotec Launches New Mobile Magnetic Separator for Biomass & Waste Applications

Northern Ireland based equipment manufacturer, Terex Ecotec, has introduced the TMS 320 Metal Separator for mobile separation, offering an efficient drum magnet and eddy current rotor aimed at the recovering metals from compost, biomass, IBA and waste. Link to full article

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