Environmental News: Energy from Waste can help tackle climate change - report.
The Mayor’s Climate Change Action Plan highlights the importance of waste management facilities generating energy in the form of heat and power in helping London move away from reliance on the national grid and on to local, lower-carbon de-centralised energy systems. The London Plan estimates that around 300 additional waste management facilities (of which around 50 are needed for residual waste treatment) are necessary in London for the capital to meet the Mayor’s self-sufficiency targets
In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, the best performing scenarios, in terms of their greenhouse gas impact, were those based on either mechanical biological treatment (MBT) followed by anaerobic digestion (AD) or on gasification preceded by autoclave, coupled with hydrogen fuel cell technologies. These scenarios performed particularly well due to MBT or autoclave processes capturing materials suitable for recycling from the waste stream.
The Greenhouse Gas Balances of Waste Management Scenarios report was launched at the ACR+ international conference on January 31 2008 and is available here.
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