CONTENTS                                                  Mar-Apr 2000

IN THE NEWS
Waste management in the Philippines Ö USAEP technical aid programme for Viet Nam Ö Grant for transfer of composting technology Ö Hospital waste disposal project Ö Japan to transform FRP waste into cement materials Ö Indian initiative for fly-ash utilization Ö Coal mining eco-fund Ö Green purchasing network in Japan Ö Promotion of cleaner technologies urged

INVENTIONS/NEW PRODUCTS
Eco-friendly paper developed from cotton stalks Ö Hemp-based plastics Ö New waste compaction system Ö Disposal of toxic waste by polymer encapsulation Ö New bioremediation products offered by Australian scientists

R&D IDEAS
Food preservation using wastewater Ö Nickel alloys help reduce automotive exhausts Ö Wound healer from dairy waste Ö Extremophile bacteria for crude oil clean-up

WASTE RECYCLING
Refinery feedstock from waste tyres Ö Innovative recycling of municipal solid waste Ö Fully automatic plant for sorting plastic waste Ö By-products recovery from organic waste streams Ö Advanced filtration technique for recycling process water Ö Plastics recycling plants from Germany

WASTE TREATMENT
Technologies to treat sulphate in waste streams Ö Bacteria consume terephthalate and ethylene glycol Ö Bacteria help breakdown DDT Ö DNA chip technology to monitor quality of water Ö Ultra-pure water Ö First sludge drier-pelletizer in Latin America Ö New solutions for treating textile industry effluents Ö Flue gas desulphurization system Ö Massive leather sludge clean-up in Portugal

WASTE DISPOSAL/UTILIZATION
Low-cost incinerator for disposal of hospital wastes Ö Disposal of hazardous waste Ö Incinerating sewage sludge together with household waste

WASTE-TO-ENERGY
Distillery wastes fuel waste-to-energy plant Ö Generating electricity from municipal and commercial waste Ö Waste tyres fuel cement facility in the United Kingdom Ö Anaerobic digestion transforms municipal waste into energy Ö Anaerobic digester in hybrid energy system

NEW PUBLICATIONS

TECH EVENTS