In a recent commentary, Mary Urban, WIN Waste Innovation’s senior director of communications and community, states that “waste-to-energy facilities do not adversely impact human health” based on a ...

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and ...

When you throw something in the garbage, chances are you never think about it again. But this trash doesn’t just magically disappear. Local governments have to determine how to dispose of the more ...

The city is moving ahead on a proposal to turn sewage sludge into electricity. The City Council Tuesday night gave Pat Ball, the city's utilities director, the go ahead to refine plans that would ...

The North American branch of Spanish waste company FCC has made strides this year to bring its waste-to-energy expertise to ...

Widely in use in countries including Japan, South Korea and northern Europe, waste-to-energy technology is making inroads in Southeast Asia, where it’s presented as a tried-and-tested green energy ...

Landfill waste produces 11% of global methane emissions, with waste third-largest GHG emitter in Europe's cities Stopping organic waste going to landfill critical, as it produces methane when ...

As part of our immersive field course, we visited Amager Bakke, a waste incinerator in Copenhagen, Denmark. The plant was built in 2016 by Amager Resource Center, a management company owned by the ...

Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them. Waste-to-energy incineration has been raised as a ...

For years, Maryland climate activists have fought to repeal a law passed in 2011 meant to encourage the construction of new trash incinerators in Frederick County and South Baltimore, which were never ...