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CEST Proceedings are published under the ISSN 2944-9820.

Enabling the Total Resource Utilization (TRU) Habitat

Tsantrizos P., (Corresponding) Curry N.

Topic:

Water, energy and/or food nexus

Terragon Environmental Technologies Inc. has developed a suite of user-friendly technologies to treat solid and liquid byproducts of human consumption now considered “waste” and convert them into “resources” that can be re-used in the same place in which they are generated (in situ). These...Read more

Keywords:

resource recovery, waste-to-energy, grey water, black water, on-site waste management

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30955/gnc2019.00854

Conference:

CEST2019

Paper ID:

cest2019_00854

Challenging the belief that organic waste and plastic should be diverted from landfill on climate change grounds:

(Corresponding) Hutton B., Norrish M., Horan E.

Topic:

Solid waste management

Abstract Landfill is generally believed to have higher greenhouse gas emissions than composting or waste-to-energy. The EU Landfill Directive requires nations to progressively divert biodegradable waste away from landfill. Waste disposal in landfill is at the bottom of its Waste Hierarchy. Many...Read more

Keywords:

landfill emissions, waste-to-energy, Waste hierarchy, composting

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30955/gnc2019.00909

Conference:

CEST2019

Paper ID:

cest2019_00909