Switzerland

With many thanks to SEWACO s.r.o. our WasteCulture country lead for Czech Republic, we are proud to bring in some new ideas about knowledge management and how important energy recovery from waste is for GHG mitigation.

Many EU communities rely on nearby Swiss facilities for efficient waste treatment.

The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, today elected Ambassador Julio Cordano, of Chile, as the next INC Chair during the third part of the fifth session (INC-5.3).

Swiss green-tech company unveils robots-as-a-service for the waste to X (WtX) sector, advancing plant management through cutting-edge automation and enhancing safety, efficiency and sustainability in complex industrial environments.

In summer 2024, the South African government published a strategy paper on the management of e-waste, which was developed in collaboration with Empa. This is the first time the country has issued standardized guidelines for the proper and safe handling of e-waste. The collaboration is part of a program funded by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

The landmark acquisition accelerates the evolution of the Kanadevia Inova business beyond Business Development, EPC and plant lifecycle service provider.

This article presents the integrated project delivery (IPD) as one such possible approach. IPD (or project alliance in Switzerland) is based on the fundamental principle of equal partners working towards a common overarching goal.

A new form of pollution is conquering the Swiss environment and creating challenges for waste management: disposable e-cigarettes.

Climate investments must be made sooner and on a much larger scale

Energy and metals recovery from urban wastes (waste-to-energy or WtE) is one of the key areas that can help address this issue.

Kanadevia Inova has officially received the Provisional Acceptance Certificate (PAC) from kenova AG for its combustion and boiler system at the new KEBAG Enova Emmenspitz waste-to-energy plant in Zuchwil, Canton Solothurn, Switzerland.

With all key project details finalized, Kanadevia Inova’s North America team and its partners are launching one of the most advanced organic waste-to-renewable gas projects in the region and establishing a new benchmark in circular waste management and renewable energy production.

Hospital and medical wastes are disposed in tens of thousands of dedicated incinerators or are autoclaved to destroy pathogens and then landfilled. However, over a hundred cities which have waste to energy (WTE) power plants fueled by municipal solid waste, use these plants to co-combust medical wastes. This report identified forty one such plants, located in a dozen nations, which in total co-combust about 90,000 tons of medical waste annually. The medical waste represented an average of 2.4% of the total amount of wastes combusted in these WTE power plants. Generally, the medical wastes are collected at the point of origin in puncture resistant, leakproof and sealed containers which are transported to WTE plants and are mechanically conveyed to the WTE furnace.

As reflected in the proposals included in the “Fit for 55” climate package, sustainable waste management may contribute to the European goals of emissions reduction. Waste-to-Energy has an instrumental role in the treatment of non-recyclable waste.

Bulgaria: Disposal of the most dangerous locations with buried pesticides

This Outlook can help decision-makers understand the direction in which we are heading and help to assess which policies can support a more circular economy. The OECD stands ready to assist governments in making this transition by designing, developing and delivering better resource efficiency policies for better lives.

In contrast to previously often applied automated radiation pass cleaning technologies as Shower Cleaning, Water Canons and Wall Blowers, all running on water or steam, the Shock Pulse Generator (SPG) automatically creates powerful shock waves by pressurized gas combustion. A comparison of the cleaning performance achieved for six installations is presented. Based on 70+ SPGs installed in radiation passes of waste to energy plants world wide, design guidelines for the implementation for retrofits and new builts is given. Typical information about operating expenditures are then put into relation to customer benefits.

In contrast to previously often applied automated radiation pass cleaning technologies as Shower Cleaning, Water Canons and Wall Blowers, all running on water or steam, the Shock Pulse Generator (SPG) automatically creates powerful shock waves by pressurized gas combustion. A comparison of the cleaning performance achieved for six installations is presented. Based on 70+ SPGs installed in radiation passes of waste to energy plants world wide, design guidelines for the implementation for retrofits and new builts is given. Typical information about operating expenditures are then put into relation to customer benefits.

Sewage sludge treatment routes are mostly well established in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. While there are different approaches, the problem or task of processing and handling sewage sludge is widely considered solved. So why is this a trending topic?

This paper describes the field demonstration of a new on-conveyor sensor for bulk sensing and sorting of copper ores. The sensor is based on certain classes of Magnetic Resonance (MR), that although well understood for many decades, to the author’s knowledge have not previously been exploited for on-line quantitative measurement in the mining industry.

Europe’s largest energy-from-waste plant for municipal solid waste is to be built in Istanbul. The turnkey contract, together with one-year operation has been awarded to the Swiss company Hitachi Zosen Inova together with its Turkish partner Makyol. The plant will process 1 million tonnes of waste per annum generating around 70 MW of electricity.

Biochar will change the world! Our planet’s soil contains more than twice as much carbon as the atmosphere.

While MBT plants traditionally focus on mechanically sorting selected material fractions from a given MSW waste stream and on stabilizing the organic fraction to be used e.g. as landfill cover, a modern waste management system requires much more.

Combustion with energy recovery of post-recycling municipal solid waste (MSW) plays an important role in sustainable waste management worldwide. The main by-product of MSW combustion is the ash discharged at the end of the moving grate, which has significant resource potential, since it mainly consists of ferrous, non-ferrous metals and mineral aggregates.