Full Description
Waste-to-energy plants generate energy and they manage waste, notably municipal solid waste (MSW). Which way is best is still a matter of serious scientific research, both in a technological and in an economic-commercial sense, taking the environmental impact into account. The latter is a particular concern of the transition to a (more) circular economy, the major economic perspective launched by the European Union. The role of waste-to-energy processes in such a transition is still marred by legal problems and, even in 2017, considered a controversial subject. In this multi-disciplinary book, the state of waste-to-energy in the modern world is analyzed from the point of view of several disciplines: legal, socio- economic, commercial, and technological. [Subject: International Law, Environmental Law]
Contents
Introduction; 1 From Waste to Energyon the European Union) - Harry H.G. Post; 2 Investment in WtE: The World Bank and Others - Stefano Silingardi; 3 Waste-to-Energy Technologies - Lieve Helsen, Nicholas Agon & Anouk Bosmans; 4 WtE in Practice: The Clean and Safe Sink Solution of the Amsterdam Waste Energy Company (AEB) - Sietse A. Agema & Matthias Wieseler; 5 Assessing WtE Technologies by Way of an Analytic Hierarchy Process - Filippo Corsini, Natalia Gusmerotti & Marco Frey; 6 WtE and the Circular Economy: Environment and Energy - Thomas J. de Roemph; 7 Regulating Emerging Technologies: Regulation and Innovation in WtE - Kim Talus & Topi Turunen
