methane reduction

August 27, 2024

Join the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) for the ISWA 2024 Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, from 15 to September 18, 2024, taking place for the first time on African soil.

The International Solid Waste Association’s World Congress is the foremost event in the field of solid waste management. It serves as a global assembly featuring elevated plenary sessions, technical site visits, and a rich cultural and social itinerary. Here, waste management professionals, government officials, industry leaders, policymakers, scientists, and emerging professionals convene, engaging in constructive dialogues to encourage scientific and technical advancements in sustainable solid waste management. ISWA 2024 offers a platform for the exchange of knowledge, ideas, techniques, and technologies.

 

James LawJoin James Law for the Challenges and Solutions in Landfill Management and Dumpsite Operations Panel – September 16 at 15:50.

Also, on September 16, at 17:10, join the Methane Emissions Monitoring of Landfills Using Satellite Technology Panel – to learn how technology creates safer environments and efficiencies.

 

Alex StegeAlex Stege presents Seven Years of SWEET: A Review of the History of the Tool’s Development and Application on September 17 at 12:10. (Solid Waste Emissions Estimation Tool for LFG).

 

Robert DickAt 16:20, join Bob Dick and Alex Stege for the LFG SessionSolution-based Technologies on LFG Control Systems to Mitigate Methane Emissions in the United States.

 

Adedeji FawoleOn September 18 Session Chair Deji Fawole leads the Waste Management Service Delivery sessions starting at 8:40 and Utilizing Methane Emission Data from High-Resolution Satellites for Business Cases and ROI Calculations in Gas Capture Investments at 12:10.

 

Dave RossDave Ross, on the Editorial Board, is also joining the conference; it’s always great to see Dave!

 

 

 

Posted by Diane Samuels at 10:04 am

June 19, 2023

Meet SCS Engineers’ solid waste waste experts at BOOTH 502 at WASTECON 2023, SWANA’s executive leadership summit, taking place September 27–29, in Boston, MA.

This is a must-attend event for anyone who seeks to remain at the forefront of the solid waste industry and maximize their organization’s potential for success.

  • Learn to better serve your stakeholders.
  • Improve your organization and operations.
  • Enrich your own career and those of team members.

Register by July 31 to take advantage of early bird pricing. Click for more conference details 

 

 

Posted by Laura Dorn at 11:59 am

December 20, 2017

By keeping open lines of communication between industry stakeholders and the U.S. EPA at a federal level, both parties have been able to improve the quality of GHG emissions data reported under the GHGRP while reducing the monitoring burden.

Read this SCS Engineer’s abstract that discusses the cooperation between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and solid waste industry stakeholders in developing, revising, and implementing the landfill reporting requirements as part of the federal GHG Reporting Program (GHGRP) (40 CFR Part 98). The paper covers:

  • Outreach in early stages of the GHGRP development through recent decisions to utilize GHG emissions data from the GHGRP in the EPA’s current draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2015 (GHG Inventory).
  • The initial implicit assumptions made by both the EPA and Stakeholders, using the reporting of “back-up devices” and the calculation of the fraction of time a destruction device was operating as an example of the assumptions made and an illustration of how those assumptions were implemented implicitly in the GHGRP.
  • How stakeholders have reached out to the EPA to address incorrect or misleading assumptions.
  • A summary of how stakeholders work to provide the EPA with additional data necessary to justify changes to the regulation, including revisiting oxidation factors that were rejected in the initial GHGRP and reducing methane measurement frequency at landfills.
  • How changes have improved landfill reporting under the GHGRP to make it more representative of actual emissions and more reflective of the sites that are reporting.
  • The unintended consequences of stakeholder outreach and revisions to the GHGRP for landfills.

 

Click here to read the paper.

 

Posted by Diane Samuels at 6:03 am