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Anaergia to build State-of-the-art food waste and wastewater sludge co-digestion facility at Monterey One Water

June 6, 2023

Via: Waste Management World

Anaergia has announced that it will provide technologies that will enable Monterey One Water, the wastewater utility of northern Monterey County, California, to produce renewable energy from both food waste and wastewater. The project will significantly expand the anaerobic digestion […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Constellation sets hydrogen-gas plant blending record, but more advances needed for utility-scale use: experts

June 5, 2023

Via: Utility Dive

If the Alabama test has any implications for the broader hydrogen industry, it suggests mixing the fuel with natural gas could hold even greater potential for existing natural gas plants than previously supposed. But don’t expect to see utilities blending […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Coca Cola Opening a ‘Recycle Bar’ in Hong Kong, Educating Visitors on PETs

June 5, 2023

Via: Waste360

To ring in World Environment Day, the Coca-Cola company in Hong Kong is working with the City Plaza to launch a ‘Recycle Bar’ which will help demonstrate that recycled PET bottles can be given new life. Polyethylene terephthalate, better known […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Colorado Plastic Bag Fee Helping Local Recycling Facilities

June 1, 2023

Via: Waste360

Six months ago, Colorado’s Plastic Pollution Reduction Act put a 10-cent fee statewide on single-use plastics. Since, early data suggests the change is helping local recycling centers. Eco-Cycle, a center in Colorado for hard-to-recycle materials, has been pushing for a […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Newton Officials Will Conduct ‘Spot Checks’ for Food Waste in Normal Garbage Bins

June 1, 2023

Via: Waste360

Residents in Newton, Powys, Wales may have their trash bins inspected for food waste that should be going into the dedicated food containers that are provided by Powys County Council. The council says it will be conducting checks so that […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Bridgestone Uses Recycled Plastic in Tires for Indy 500

May 31, 2023

Via: Waste360

The IndyCar series exclusive tire supplier, Bridgestone Americas, is providing a new tire compound for the high-speed machines at the Indy 500 that is made using recycled plastics. The new tires, the Firestone Firehawk, which will be used at the […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

European Council ready to start negotiations on waste shipment rules

May 25, 2023

Via: Waste Management World

Banning waste exports is becoming more and more likely for EU member states. Now the European Council announced that it has adopted its negotiating mandate to open talks with the European Parliament on a proposal to bring EU legislation on […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

US electrical steel shortage threatens energy transition, power outage recovery, groups warn Biden

May 24, 2023

Via: Utility Dive

A shortage of electrical steel is challenging the transition to emissions-free vehicles, delaying power restoration after storms and slowing new home and commercial construction, electric utilities and other groups warned President Biden on Monday. Electrical steel is used in the […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Orlando Officials Conducting Studies To Prevent Plastic Waste in Waterways

May 24, 2023

Via: Waste360

The city of Orlando, Fla. Is partnering with local environmentalists to investigate what is causing the city’s plastic pollution and find a way to reduce it. The Circularity Assessment Protocol (CAP) study will be conducted by scientists at the Ocean […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Study Concludes Recycled Diapers Can be Used in Construction

May 23, 2023

Via: Waste360

A new study published last week by researchers from the University of Kitakyushu in Japan claims that diapers can partially replace sand in the mortar and concrete composites used to construct buildings. It was found this method can be used […]


Other Utilities, Public Utilities

EPA proposes rules that could require utilities to clean up ‘legacy’ coal ash ponds, landfills

May 18, 2023

Via: Utility Dive

When the EPA issued its coal ash regulations in October 2015, it exempted ponds and landfills that were used at power plants that had retired before the rule took effect. The EPA expects about 280 coal ash ponds and landfills […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Plastics recycling market set to grow big

May 17, 2023

Via: Waste Management World

The plastics recycling market industry is expected to grow exceptionally within the next eight years, according to recently published market data. According to a report by Market Research Future the global market is expected to expand by more than 50% […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Green Mountain Power aims to lift cap on popular residential energy storage programs with Tesla, others

May 16, 2023

Via: Utility Dive

Green Mountain Power has asked Vermont regulators for permission to lift the cap on its popular residential energy storage programs to expand customer access to battery backup power. GMP’s Powerwall program, in partnership with Tesla, and its Bring Your Own […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Partnership Seeks Non-Recyclable Waste for Waste-to-Jet Fuel Facility

May 15, 2023

Via: Waste360

Alfanar and N+P Group today announced a partnership to source and process up to 1 million tonnes per year of non-recyclable waste from local authorities and waste companies. The joint venture will require the equivalent to the amount of rubbish […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Coca-Cola Investing in Startup to Boost Use of Recycled Materials

May 12, 2023

Via: Waste360

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Coca-Cola’s biggest European bottler, is funding a startup in the Netherlands which will produce food-grade recycled plastics from other plastics that typically are sent to landfills or incinerators. Those plastics include films, trays, clothing, and colored packaging. […]


Other Utilities, Public Utilities

NRC Issues License for Holtec’s New Mexico Consolidated Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility

May 11, 2023

Via: PowerMag

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Holtec International a license to build and operate a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) for spent nuclear fuel in southeastern New Mexico, despite the state’s opposition. Granted on May 9 after an eight-year […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

The State of Waste-to-Energy in the US

May 10, 2023

Via: Waste Management World

It was in 1885 that the first waste incinerator was built in the United States on Governors Island in New York. By the mid-20th century hundreds more were in operation across the country. But when the impacts of the water […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

NGOs suing California PUC, utilities over net metering update could face ‘fairly steep’ challenge: attorney

May 9, 2023

Via: Utility Dive

In December, the CPUC issued a decision updating the state’s net energy metering tariff, implementing an export compensation rate that is tied to the value of behind-the-meter generation on the grid. The agency estimated that the new framework would save […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Health Care Collaboration in Denmark Aims to Reduce Medical Waste

May 9, 2023

Via: Waste360

A new health care sector collaboration in Denmark will evaluate the feasibility of recycling used blood collection tubes to reduce medical waste as part of the participants’ sustainability goals and Denmark’s Climate Action Strategy. The pilot program is a collaboration […]


Public Utilities, Waste Management

Tennessee City Approves $65 Million Plan for New Waste Transfer Project

May 8, 2023

Via: Waste360

In a recent vote, the Murfreesboro city council, in Tennessee, came to a unanimous decision to approve the next steps in the process for building a waste transfer station that will also turn trash into renewable energy. This project, costing […]