Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to recycling of glass waste were assessed from a waste management perspective. Focus was on the material recovery facility (MRF) where the initial sorting of glass waste takes place. The MRF delivers products like cullet and whole bottles to other industries. Two possible uses of reprocessed glass waste were considered: (i) remelting of cullet added to gla...

Technical and economic analysis of thermal plasma–assisted Waste-to-Energy 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Increasing interest is focusing on plasma-assisted gasification applied to the treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW), especially as it may be a new way to increase Waste-to-Energy (WTE) worldwide. The aim of this thesis was to investigate different such processes under development and their technic...

waste-removal chain through pervasive computing A. Boustani L. Girod D. Offenhuber R. Britter M. I. Wolf D. Lee S. Miles A. Biderman C. Ratti Environmental sustainability and energy management are increasingly critical issues in people’s lives and their livelihood. New and rapidly evolving tracking technologies are major tools for addressing these challenges because they provide visibility to t...

Inhabitants’ behaviour in buildings has a strong impact on the energy consumption patterns resulting in energy waste. The existing multi agent and centralized energy management approaches are focused on consumption optimization and load predictions without taking into account the inhabitants’ behaviour. We argue that the consumption optimization without waste reduction is difficult. In this art...

1 Laboratoire de Ge! ne! tique des Prokaryotes, Universite! Libre de Bruxelles, IBMM, B-6041-Gosselies, Belgium 2 Laboratory for Microbial Ecology and Technology, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium 3 Environmental Technology, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, VITO, B-2400 Mol, Belgium 4 Laboratory of Microbiology, Radioactive Waste & Clean-up Division, Center of Studies for Nu...

accumulation of unmanaged industrial solid waste, especially in developing countries has resulted in an increased environmental concern. in view of utilization of industrial solid waste the recycled paper mill waste (rpmw) – cement composite bricks were designed and developed. in order to investigate the environmental performance of sustainable construction materials two small scale model house...

The need for cleaner sources of energy has stirred research into utilising alternate fuel sources with favourable emission and sustainability such as biodiesel. However, there are technical constraints that hinder the widespread use of some of the low cost raw materials such as pork fatty wastes. Currently available technology permits the use of lipolytic microorganisms to sustainably produce e...