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  • Waste to liquid fuels: potency, progress and challenges

    June 19, 2015 Editor 0

    Summary The valorization of municipal solid waste (MSW) into liquid fuels is a multi-beneficial global option for ensuring environmental and energy sustainability. The paper critically reviewed a wide range of recent literature on the potency, progress, and challenges associated with MSW upgrading into liquid fuels. Concise details on the various upgrading technologies involved such as […]

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  • Tomorrow’s fill-up could come from plastic waste

    February 6, 2013 Editor 0

    We use oil to make plastics. So, in theory, couldn’t we break down used plastic back into its components and get oil back out again? Yes. And the idea isn’t just theoretical. A number of companies (as well as some innovative individuals) are already using different versions of a technology called pyrolysis to convert waste […]

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  • Sludge power: Wastewater plants could become energy producers

    August 23, 2012 Editor 0

    Wastewater treatment plants could one day not only power themselves but be able to generate excess electricity for use by others.

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  • Waste Not, Want Not: Eco-Fuel Africa

    August 1, 2012 Editor 0

    A trained accountant, Sanga Moses spent more than three years working in Uganda’s bustling capital city, Kampala. But his life changed in 2009 during a visit to his remote home village in Western Uganda. Moses was on his way out of the village and encountered his 12-year-old sister carrying a large bundle of wood on […]

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  • Finding Value in Waste

    October 16, 2011 Editor 0

    Authored by: Sergio Cabello Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on the TechnoServe blog. The great Peter Drucker once said, “Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” The story of Liset and Ximena Contreras embodies this quote and much more.

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  • On Opposite Continents, 2 Individuals Turning Waste Into Wealth

    August 1, 2011 Editor 0

    From the Publisher: The following story can hold lessons for those concern about solid waste management in Africa. Authored by: ViewChange LinkTV The following video is one in a series from ViewChange, a multimedia organization managed by LinkTV and founded with support by the Gates Foundation, that is producing and procuring educational and inspiring  videos from across […]

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