https://feedstockdata.com/category/waste-to-energy/Waste-to-energyen-gbFri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/dirty-renewables-what-the-term-means-and-which-energy-sources-it-covers/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/dirty-renewables-what-the-term-means-and-which-energy-sources-it-covers/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energy"Dirty renewables" is a journalistic label, not a legal concept. We explain what it is used for: biomass burning, co-firing with coal and energy from waste, and how it differs from fermentation.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/szczecin-trams-to-run-on-energy-from-waste-ecogenerator-agreement/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/szczecin-trams-to-run-on-energy-from-waste-ecogenerator-agreement/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyFrom 1 October 2026 to the end of July 2027 Tramwaje Szczecińskie will buy about 8,395 MWh of energy from EcoGenerator – a municipal waste thermal treatment installation – which will cover about 40% of traction energy demand.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/new-zealand-organic-waste-emissions-consultation-2026/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/new-zealand-organic-waste-emissions-consultation-2026/Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyFrom 12 June to 12 July 2026 the New Zealand environment ministry is consulting on options to reduce emissions from organic waste; of 41 class 1 landfills only 18 have gas capture.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/japan-municipal-waste-incinerators-2022-2024-capacity-and-energy/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/japan-municipal-waste-incinerators-2022-2024-capacity-and-energy/Wed, 06 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyJapan has about 1000 municipal waste incinerators, of which about 40% generate electricity. An analysis of environment ministry data for fiscal years 2022–2024.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/emissions-from-waste-incineration-plants-standards-monitoring/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/emissions-from-waste-incineration-plants-standards-monitoring/Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyWhat limits apply to waste incineration plants, how are emissions measured and what data is publicly available? We explain the role of the IED, the BAT conclusions and continuous and periodic measurements.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/energy-from-waste-digestion-incineration-pyrolysis-landfill-gas/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/energy-from-waste-digestion-incineration-pyrolysis-landfill-gas/Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyFor biowaste digestion is better, for residual waste incineration, for selected fractions RDF, pyrolysis or gasification. We compare the routes by feedstock, product, maturity and legal conditions.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/china-waste-incinerators-overcapacity-waste-shortage-analysis-2025/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/china-waste-incinerators-overcapacity-waste-shortage-analysis-2025/Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyChina already incinerates about 79% of urban waste in about 1000 plants, but over 40% of capacity stands idle. Why the expansion of incinerators collided with a shortage of waste and a lack of money.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/australia-new-accu-landfill-gas-method-2025/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/australia-new-accu-landfill-gas-method-2025/Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyThe “Reducing Methane Emissions from Landfill Gas” method (2025) under the ACCU scheme awards credits only for methane above a baseline capture level that rises by 0.5% per year; it has applied since the end of November 2025.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eu-ets-for-municipal-waste-incineration-monitoring-from-2024/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eu-ets-for-municipal-waste-incineration-monitoring-from-2024/Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energySince 2024, municipal waste incineration plants have reported emissions in the EU ETS, without an obligation to surrender allowances. The Commission is to assess whether to include them in the system from 2028. We explain the legal position and scenarios.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/itpok-in-poland-thermal-treatment-of-municipal-waste-2025/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/itpok-in-poland-thermal-treatment-of-municipal-waste-2025/Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyPoland has several municipal waste thermal treatment installations (ITPOK). We outline their number, their role in the system and the new installation in Gdańsk launched in 2025, with a caveat about differences in the data.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/epa-lmop-542-landfill-gas-projects-usa-september-2024/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/epa-lmop-542-landfill-gas-projects-usa-september-2024/Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyAccording to the EPA LMOP database, in September 2024, 488 landfills fed 542 operating landfill gas energy projects; the EPA estimates that a further 444 landfills could viably start such a project.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/landfill-fees-and-the-waste-to-energy-market/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/landfill-fees-and-the-waste-to-energy-market/Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyThe fee for depositing waste in a landfill is differentiated by waste code and strongly influences whether waste goes to landfill, to RDF or to an incineration plant. We discuss the mechanism and its effects.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/bat-conclusions-for-waste-incineration-decision-2019-2010/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/bat-conclusions-for-waste-incineration-decision-2019-2010/Tue, 02 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyImplementing Decision 2019/2010 established BAT conclusions for waste incineration: BAT-associated emission levels and technical requirements. The deadline for adapting installations expired in December 2023.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/singapore-tuas-nexus-iwmf-co-digestion-waste-sludge-delays/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/singapore-tuas-nexus-iwmf-co-digestion-waste-sludge-delays/Mon, 27 May 2024 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyTuas Nexus, Singapore's integrated waste and used water management facility, is to process food waste and sludge in co-digestion. The first stage, planned for 2025, is to be commissioned gradually only from mid-2026.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/waste-incineration-eu-taxonomy-dnsh-public-financing-of-itpok/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/waste-incineration-eu-taxonomy-dnsh-public-financing-of-itpok/Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyA waste incineration plant is not an activity supported by the EU taxonomy, and the DNSH principle and exclusions in the cohesion funds limit public financing of new capacity. What does this mean for an investor?https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eu-agrees-carbon-removal-certification-framework-including-beccs/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eu-agrees-carbon-removal-certification-framework-including-beccs/Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyOn 20 February 2024 the Council and the European Parliament agreed a voluntary framework for certifying carbon dioxide removals. The waste thermal treatment industry saw in it an opportunity for worthwhile "negative emissions".https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/mbt-regulation-amendment-november-2023-100-mm-screen-stabilised-output/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/mbt-regulation-amendment-november-2023-100-mm-screen-stabilised-output/Wed, 22 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyThe regulation of the minister of climate of 17 November 2023 changes the rules for mechanical-biological treatment of municipal waste: a 100 mm screen, biological treatment of the undersize fraction and fuel from biodrying. It enters into force on 7 December.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/landfill-gas-in-cogeneration-installation-cleaning-support/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/landfill-gas-in-cogeneration-installation-cleaning-support/Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyHow to design the use of landfill gas in gas engines: from wells and cleaning, through capacity selection, to renewable energy support and the risk of declining yield after the landfill closes.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/mechanical-biological-treatment-new-regulation-from-24-january-2023/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/mechanical-biological-treatment-new-regulation-from-24-january-2023/Mon, 09 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyThe Minister of Climate's regulation of 28 December 2022, published on 9 January 2023, sets requirements for mechanical-biological treatment of mixed municipal waste: fractions, stabilisation, fermentation and alternative fuel.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/ets-reform-agreement-18-december-2022-waste-incinerators-monitoring/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/ets-reform-agreement-18-december-2022-waste-incinerators-monitoring/Sun, 18 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyOn 18 December 2022 the EP and the EU Council agreed the ETS reform: a 62% emission reduction by 2030, a new system for buildings and transport from 2027 and monitoring of emissions from municipal waste incinerators from 2024.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/energy-from-organic-waste-how-to-estimate-the-biogas-potential-of-bio-waste/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/energy-from-organic-waste-how-to-estimate-the-biogas-potential-of-bio-waste/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyWe show step by step how to convert the mass of bio-waste into biogas, methane and electricity, and why the original estimates with the figure of 128 TWh were wrong by an order of magnitude.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/r1-or-d10-energy-efficiency-of-incineration-plants/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/r1-or-d10-energy-efficiency-of-incineration-plants/Thu, 27 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyA municipal waste incineration plant is a recovery installation (R1) if its energy efficiency exceeds 0.60 or 0.65; otherwise it is disposal (D10). We give the formula and a worked example.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/ghana-kumasi-gyankobaa-hybrid-waste-to-energy-plant-400-kw/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/ghana-kumasi-gyankobaa-hybrid-waste-to-energy-plant-400-kw/Mon, 09 May 2022 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyAt Gyankobaa near Kumasi, according to reports, Ghana's first hybrid waste-to-energy plant of 400 kW (solar, biogas and plastic pyrolysis) has been commissioned. A 2021 study estimates the biogas potential in Accra and Kumasi.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/pyrolysis-and-gasification-of-waste-under-the-law/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/pyrolysis-and-gasification-of-waste-under-the-law/Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyIs a pyrolysis or gasification installation a waste incinerator? It depends on whether the resulting substances are then burned. We discuss definitions, permits, the IED and the status of oil and char.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/gasification-of-waste-and-biomass-reactor-types-syngas-tars/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/gasification-of-waste-and-biomass-reactor-types-syngas-tars/Sun, 05 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyGasification converts a solid fuel into syngas under a limited supply of oxygen. We compare reactor types, discuss the problem of tars and gas cleanliness, and look at what limits commercial deployment.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/bogota-dona-juana-biogas-1-7-mw-plan-25-mw/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/bogota-dona-juana-biogas-1-7-mw-plan-25-mw/Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyBogotá's authorities described the biogas recovery system at the Doña Juana landfill: 1.7 MW of capacity, about 290 wells, 11,700 m³/h of gas and a plan to exceed 25 MW by 2022.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/china-14th-fyp-municipal-waste-incineration-800000-t-a-day/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/china-14th-fyp-municipal-waste-incineration-800000-t-a-day/Thu, 20 May 2021 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyThe NDRC and the construction ministry presented a municipal waste infrastructure plan for 2021–2025: incineration capacity of 800,000 t a day and about 60% material utilisation of household waste.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/pfr-co-finances-olsztyn-thermal-waste-treatment-plant/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/pfr-co-finances-olsztyn-thermal-waste-treatment-plant/Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyThe Polish Development Fund (PFR) provided mezzanine financing to the ITPO Olsztyn project: an installation with a throughput of at least 100 thousand tonnes per year, which is to supply the district heating network and replace a coal-fired source.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/landfill-gas-formation-composition-and-who-must-degas-a-landfill/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/landfill-gas-formation-composition-and-who-must-degas-a-landfill/Mon, 26 Apr 2021 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyLandfill gas forms from the decomposition of biodegradable waste and usually contains about half methane. We describe the phases of its formation, composition, risks and the degassing obligations under the directive and national rules.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/rdf-and-srf-waste-derived-fuels-codes-standards-quality-classes-and-market/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/rdf-and-srf-waste-derived-fuels-codes-standards-quality-classes-and-market/Fri, 26 Jun 2020 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyRDF is a fuel from the high-calorific fraction of waste, SRF its standardised, better-described variety. We explain codes 19 12 10 and 19 12 12, classification by standard and who buys such fuel.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/tarnow-mpec-waste-cogeneration-nfosigw-funding/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/tarnow-mpec-waste-cogeneration-nfosigw-funding/Mon, 15 Jun 2020 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyThe Municipal District Heating Company (MPEC) in Tarnów will build for PLN 200 million a cogeneration installation based on waste-derived fuel. Co-financing from the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFOŚiGW) is around PLN 165 million.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/waste-pyrolysis-state-of-the-technology-products-limits-realistic-view/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/waste-pyrolysis-state-of-the-technology-products-limits-realistic-view/Tue, 17 Mar 2020 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyPyrolysis is the thermal decomposition of waste without oxygen into gas, oil and char. We show the types of process, the product balance, the barriers to scaling up and what to realistically expect from the technology.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/reppie-addis-ababa-50-mw-waste-to-energy-plant-ethiopia/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/reppie-addis-ababa-50-mw-waste-to-energy-plant-ethiopia/Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyReppie, next to the Koshe landfill, is a 50-megawatt thermal waste treatment plant opened in August 2018. We explain its parameters, the context and the place of digestion in African cities.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/co-incineration-of-waste-in-cement-plants-and-heating-plants-requirements/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/co-incineration-of-waste-in-cement-plants-and-heating-plants-requirements/Wed, 01 Jan 2020 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyCo-incineration is the use of waste as a fuel in an installation whose main purpose is producing energy or goods, e.g. clinker. We explain the rules, emission limits and the role of cement plants in Poland.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/east-rockingham-waste-incinerator-perth-arena/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/east-rockingham-waste-incinerator-perth-arena/Fri, 27 Dec 2019 08:00:00 +0000Waste-to-energyThe East Rockingham Resource Recovery Facility in Western Australia is to process up to 330,000 t of waste per year (including 30,000 t of sludge) and export 28.9 MW to the grid; ARENA contributed AUD 18 million.