Waste

Wind Turbine
Coal & Gas Emissions Are 1500–3000× The Mass Of Waste Wind Turbine Blades
Recently, reasonable groups have been raising moderate concerns about the growing stacks of wind turbine blades in landfills. Other reasonable people have been …
Crude
South Sudan Ignores Reports on Oil Pollution, Birth Defects
The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy met…
New Research to Help Identify Safe Sites for Nuclear Waste Storage
New insights into rates of bedrock erosion by glaciers around the world will help to identify better sites for the safe storage of nuclear waste, according to r…
Wind Turbine
Used Wind Turbine Blades Pose a Growing Waste Problem
What happens to wind turbine blades after their operational lifespan ends? Although wind power is considered one of the cleanest types of energy...
Nuclear Fuel
Canadian Company Seeks New Site to Bury Nuclear Waste
A power company is reconsidering its options after dropping plans to bury waste from its nuclear plants on the Canadian shore of Lake Huron, officials said Wedn…
Thermal Plant
Ghana to Construct 400KW Waste-to-Energy Plant
Ghana is set to construct a 400KW hybrid waste-to-energy power plant to treat urban solid waste in the country. Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Minister of …
Oil and Gas Technology
Portuguese Tech Institute to Produce Advanced Biofuels From Tree-Pruning-waste
A project to use the waste from pruning vines and fruit trees to produce advanced biofuel is being developed at the BLC3 Campus of Technology and Innovation in …
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Vestas to Produce Zero-Waste Wind Turbines by 2040
Solid waste contributes an estimated 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and Vestas says waste generated from wind turbine blades could be as much as million…
Nuclear Technology
Nuclear Waste Could Be Recycled for Diamond Battery Power
A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol hope to recycle radioactive material directly from a former nuclear power plant in Gloucestersh…
Nuclear Fuel
Nuclear Waste could be More Useful
Chemists have found a new use for the waste product of nuclear power - transforming an unused stockpile into a versatile compound which could be used to create …
Nuclear Fuel
Radioactive Fukushima Waste Destined For Pacific?
The government of Japan looks likely to proceed with a controlled ocean-release of radioactive wastewater associated with the Fukushima disaster, a move critici…
Using Liquid Metal to Repurpose Waste Heat
Researchers in the Renewable Energy and Virtual Technology lab at UTD developed a prototype generator that uses gallium to recover low temperature waste heat fr…
Scientists At HKU Invented A Recapture Device Can Convert Heat Waste Into Usable Electricity
Engineers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have just invented and patented a Direct Thermal Charging Cell (DTCC), a recapture device that can convert low-…
New Technique Could Accelerate Waste-to-Methane Production
In a recent study, environmental engineering master's student Bappi Chowdhury and his colleagues found that adding conductive materials to the waste products co…
Nuclear Power Plant
Study Explores the Impact of Closing Nuclear Power Plants in Germany
Many countries have phased out production of nuclear energy because of concerns related to nuclear waste and the risk of nuclear accidents.

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Waste

Coal & Gas Emissions Are 1500–3000× The Mass Of Waste Wind Turbine Blades

South Sudan Ignores Reports on Oil Pollution, Birth Defects

New Research to Help Identify Safe Sites for Nuclear Waste Storage

Used Wind Turbine Blades Pose a Growing Waste Problem

Canadian Company Seeks New Site to Bury Nuclear Waste

Ghana to Construct 400KW Waste-to-Energy Plant

Portuguese Tech Institute to Produce Advanced Biofuels From Tree-Pruning-waste

Vestas to Produce Zero-Waste Wind Turbines by 2040

Nuclear Waste Could Be Recycled for Diamond Battery Power

Nuclear Waste could be More Useful

Radioactive Fukushima Waste Destined For Pacific?

Using Liquid Metal to Repurpose Waste Heat

Scientists At HKU Invented A Recapture Device Can Convert Heat Waste Into Usable Electricity

New Technique Could Accelerate Waste-to-Methane Production

Study Explores the Impact of Closing Nuclear Power Plants in Germany