Task 36: Material and Energy valorisation of waste in a Circular Economy
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Will the tax on waste incineration increase recycling in Sweden?
Dec 2019A big debate is opened after the Swedish government announced that a new tax on waste incineration will come into effect in April next year. This decision has raised the criticism of many actors, specially the energy plants in the country, that do not believe on the tax effect on promoting material recycling. The Swedish […]
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World’s first automated textile waste sorting facility
Dec 2019Sweden will build the first automated textile sorting plant which will take the textile industry one step closer to achieve circularity. The textile sector is on the spot since it has one of the highest global impact on the environment. It is estimated that only 5% of the more that 12 000 tonnes of textiles put […]
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How to improve the economic viability of MSW facilities in US
Dec 2019In August 2019, the US Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office published a report on research and development opportunities that could enhance the economic viability of using municipal solid waste for biofuel, biopower, and bioproducts. The report identifies a number of technologies and processes that could benefit both existing systems as well as technologies that could […]
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Preserving and improving the WtE sector competitiveness
Dec 2019SINTEF Energy Research leads the European WtE 2030 consortium: a 3-year research project to contribute to keeping the Waste-to-Energy (WtE) sector competitive and performant as it is at the center of a complex web of interests (the public, politics, energy, economy, environment) in the development of circular economy. Using a local, secure supply of mainly renewable feedstock, […]
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Technology pathways available for energy recovery from waste in the context of a circular economy
Dec 2019IEA Bioenergy Task 36 held its second series of face-to-face meetings and workshops in November in Brisbane, Australia. These meetings were held in conjunction with Bioenergy Australia’s annual ‘Bioenergy Strong’ conference, and allowed the task to undertake some Australian-specific engagement activities, with a theme of bringing some global best practice to the Australian bioenergy sector. […]
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Scenarios for circular economy in Sweden
Mar 2019The new report Waste Incineration for the Future is a deliverable from a project within the Swedish Strategic Innovation Program RE:Source, financed by the Swedish Energy Agency, Formas and Vinnova. The project, Waste Incineration for the Future, aims to produce a knowledge base for the development of energy recovery from waste that suits the future […]
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New report: Transboundary flows of woody biomass waste streams in Europe
Jan 2019This report is based on the MSc thesis of Pranav Dadhich, published in September 2017. It was then updated with data from 2016 in September-October 2018 and further extended. We thank all persons who supported this work with providing information through interviews and databases. This report project was sponsored by Task 40 under the IEA […]
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Upcoming report on trends in waste management
Aug 2018Recent and future drivers related to alternative thermal treatment of waste IEA bioenergy Task 36 is preparing a report about trends in waste management. Within the waste hierarchy, waste-to-energy (WtE) conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW) is preferred before landfilling. MSW is non-hazardous household and commercial waste which is for a significant part of biogenic […]
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Why is the MSW management in Italy a difficult issue?
Aug 2018The total production of MSW (Municipal Solid Waste) in Italy in 2016 was around 30 million tons, with a production of around 500 kilos per capita. Unsorted waste production is decreasing due to increasing of the separated collection which reached 52.5 % in 2016, but with a large spread between the northern and the southern […]
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