One sensitivity explored the comparison of adopting a 20 vs a 100-year time horizon. This clearly highlighted the large impact of methane emissions from landfills, in accordance with the recent IPCC report’s emphasis on the urgency to reduce GHG-emissions.
Another sensitivity investigated the CO2eq savings by energy recovery. The average electricity and heat mix of the European grid (and its evolution with a higher penetration of renewables in the future) is considered as default assumption for energy substitution. A sensitivity analysis with a marginal approach has also been developed which means that processes which recover energy from waste avoid the most carbon intensive conventional power generation technologies – fossil fuel sources. This sensitivity highlights even more the great contributions of energy recovery from waste in a decarbonisation perspective.
The waste management industry has cross-industrial interlinkages by making valuable waste-derived content available to the whole economy as secondary resources for material and energy uses.
“The whole idea is ludicrous,” said Schmidt-Pathmann. “The amount of waste suitable for making aviation fuel is small, and the cost of conversion is relatively high, compared to conventional fuel. There is no way to recover the initial investment, and it would become another expense line in the County budget.
“The whole idea is ludicrous,” said Schmidt-Pathmann. “The amount of waste suitable for making aviation fuel is small, and the cost of conversion is relatively high, compared to conventional fuel. There is no way to recover the initial investment, and it would become another expense line in the County budget.
Dear Senator/ Representative: Re: Integrated Solid Waste Management Infrastructure Plan I recently received my Ph.D. from University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s School of Public Policy. The area I focused on in my dissertation is the current state of solid waste management in the U.S. I used the 2019 Baltimore Clean…
Leaders from the Institute for Energy and Resource Management, drawing on Europe’s experience, make the case for why it’s time to reduce methane and stop landfilling MSW. Published Nov. 12, 2021 By Philipp Schmidt-Pathmann and Stephen Gerritson Philipp Schmidt-Pathmann and Stephen Gerritson are board members at the Institute for Energy and Resource…