Much-touted cellulosic ethanol from plant waste remains a long way from commercial production reality.
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The process works at 90 percent efficiency, and it can be used on a variety of plant waste beyond orange peels.
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It is also developing an anaerobic digester that acts like a giant cow stomach, creating biogas from solid food and plant waste.
Made from corn stalks, switchgrass and other plant waste, it has the advantage of not competing with the food supply and also boasts a superior energy balance than corn-based ethanol.
It also recycles plant waste which is normally discarded.
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In other news, this week Qatar showcased designs for 9 sustainable stadiums for the 2022 World Cup and BIG unveiled plans for a plant-wrapped waste to power plant that doubles as a ski slope.
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Members voted 11 to four in favour of the energy-from-waste plant at New Barnfield near Hatfield.
Hertfordshire County Council agreed plans for an energy-from-waste plant at New Barnfield, in October.
The plant would take waste left over after recycling and composting from five local authorities in north Wales.
The public gallery was packed with residents opposed to the scheme as the full council debated the waste plant on Wednesday evening.
Sita said the plant would treat waste in a more cost-effective and environmentally-friendly way and generate green electricity to power thousands of homes.
Spelthorne council objected to the Eco Park from the outset, believing it was "fundamentally wrong" to put a waste plant so close to many hundreds of people's homes.
Gloucestershire County Council had already signed a 25-year contract with Urbaser Balfour Beatty (UBB) to build the energy-from-waste plant at Javelin Park, close to junction 12 of the M5.
In February, prosecutors accused the director of Mayak, Russia's main waste processing plant in the Ural Mountains, of allowing tons of radioactive nuclear waste to flow into a nearby river.
Staff from the Environmental Health Department had been involved with the plant from the waste strategy stage, up to decisions on design and the final implementation of the project, Mr Cook said.
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If a government-mandated market for pollution offsets ever materializes, the 26-inch pipe hauling away carbon would be able to handle the plant's waste gas and another 5 million tons from other sources in New Jersey.
While Viridor started building its energy-from-waste plant in Trident Park in Cardiff last March, Veolia's planning application for a site near the Llanwern steelworks, close to Newport, was turned down last July, and its appeal will be heard next July.
In Gothenburg's waste treatment plant, Rickard discovered a silver lining in the cloudy waters.
The Vale of White Horse District Council has unanimously rejected plans for a waste treatment plant near Sutton Courtenay.
The Surat Thani biomass plant in Thailand uses waste trimmings from six palm-oil mills to create more than 70 megawatts of power each year.
Consultation on plans to build a nuclear waste processing plant on the Romney Marsh has seen 63% of residents and 50% of businesses reject the idea.
The Department of the Environment has ordered an internal investigation into why the public was not informed of planning approval for a major waste processing plant near Londonderry.
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In the Aug. 23 memo, the DOE official responsible for supervising engineering at the facility, Gary Brunson, calls for Bechtel to be immediately removed as the design agent for the novel Waste Treatment Plant (WTP), which was supposed to begin operation last year.
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He set fire to an electric guitar alone onstage in front of a stunned crowd at the opening of Clarion Hotel Union Brygge in Drammen. (The newest addition to his empire opens Wednesday in Oslo, a luxurious art hotel named The Thief.) In Britain in 2002 he chained himself to the gate of a waste treatment plant to protest nuclear power.
Yet it is virtually impossible for a chemical plant to eliminate all airborne waste.
The county council said the plant was needed to stop waste going to landfill.
Plans to extend a waste and recycling plant in Surrey have been given the final go-ahead.
The Environment Agency could face a legal challenge after approving a new waste and recycling plant in Surrey.
Having found similar levels of the toxic waste outside the plant, the local government is checking the health of residents in the neighbourhood.
Unknown to most, the United States has an operating deep permanent geologic repository for nuclear waste, called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP.
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