Task 36: Material and Energy valorisation of waste in a Circular Economy
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TASK 36 meeting in Dublin
Jun 2024IEA Bioenergy Task 36 hold hybrid meeting in Dublin on the 16-18th October 2023. IEA Bioenergy Task 36 hold hybrid meeting in Dublin on the 16-18th October 2023. The meeting was hosted by the Irish NTL Fionnuala Murphy from University College of Dublin at the Museum of Literature of Ireland (MoLI). The national team leaders […]
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Material and Energy Valorization of Waste as part of the Circular Model
Jun 2024Task 36 was featured in the IEA Bioenergy Annual Report 2022 with an article where the task members reflect about the transformation of the waste management and resource recovery to align the circular economy principles and the emerging technologies. According to the last Circularity Gap Report, the world is only 8.6% circular. In other words, […]
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Packaging, food waste and textile waste – Targets for the Swedish Waste Management System
Jun 2024The EU Commission has submitted proposals for revising the waste directive, including proposals for producer responsibility for textiles and targets for reduced amounts of food waste. Sweden is implementing new collection systems for packaging, food waste and textiles with the aim of reducing the amounts of waste and increasing recycling and material recovery. Curbside collection […]
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New Case study about MSW sorting facility in Italy
Feb 2024Eco+Eco plant provides an example of MSW management covering an extended and complex area such the Venice Province, with improved sorting technology moving towards “closing the circle”. This report is part of a series of reports to explore lessons on sorting technologies for waste in the field of material and energy valorisation of waste within […]
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Workshop: Biomass combustion and CCUS – recording and slides available now
Oct 2023Workshop: Biomass combustion and CCUS on 21st September 2023 Bioenergy combined with carbon capture and utilisation or storage, also known as BECCUS is a concept that has been discussed in climate change mitigation research for quite some time. During the last five years the implementation has become the subject of serious consideration within governments and […]
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Regional Sustainability Workshop Series: North America – Organic and Plastic Waste Resource and Energy Recovery
Jun 2023IEA Bioenergy Task 36 (Material and Energy valorisation of waste in a Circular Economy) has hosted its second regional workshop on sustainability indicators pertaining to waste resource and energy recovery. The purpose of this workshop is to convene experts on the various pillars of sustainability and how the priorities of North American projects compare elsewhere […]
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What does Task 36 work with?
May 2023This article is part of the IEA Bioenergy Annual Report 2022. It was developed by the members of IEA Bioenergy Task 36, a working group that seeks to understand what role energy from waste and material recycling can have in a circular economy and identify technical and non-technical barriers and opportunities needed to achieve this vision. […]
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19th International Symposium on Waste Management, Resource Recovery and Sustainable Landfilling
Mar 2023Sardinia Symposium is a biennial event organized by IWWG – International Waste Working Group since 1987, which usually gathers more than 700 participants from all around the world, with over 400 papers presented at each edition, making the Sardinia Symposium the most important solid waste management conference in the world. The programme of […]
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Full-scale CCS in Norway: timeline and financing
Mar 2023Longship, Norway’s full-scale CCS project, is including WtE CCS at the Hafslund Oslo Celsio (formerly Fortum Oslo Varme) Klemetsrud plant in Oslo. Let us have a look at key events from these last years as well as the future and key financing figures.
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