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Sweden has one of the most advance waste management programs on the planet. There is plenty of sorting for recycling and reuse, however what remains is incinerated to produce electricity and the heat generated from the process provides heating to more than 100,000 homes.

 This power plant was designed with some of the best technologies that include emission capture and processing the emissions into inert materials. The plant also uses an innovative application for organic waste. The plant provides electricity to a third of the city and equally important the air is clean and the landfills closed.

Gasification offers a cleaner path to waste and can produce usable gas and liquid fuels.

Modern paper and pulp mills produce an enormous amount of waste, 15% of which ends up in landfills. One new technique has developed the use of waste paper sludge- fly ash (PFA) to replace cement in road building and construction, which would significantly reduce related emissions. So far so good…

San Francisco based Mango Materials captures methane emissions from wastewater or landfill centers to produce methane plastic, which is 100% biodegradable. Could methane plastic also be used in MOFs to capture CO2 or methane that could be reprocessed into gas in a bioreactor ?

An Iinnovative business to grows mushrooms in coffee waste, which keeps this waste out of landfills and the methane emissions it would produce.