CONTENTS                                                  Jul-Aug 2001

IN THE NEWS
Treaty to ban toxic chemicals Ö Waste treatment in the microelectronics industry Ö US$15 billion market for treatment chemicals Ö New strategy to capture greenhouse gas emissions Ö Programme to reduce emissions Ö China sets environmental targets Ö Management of solid wastes Ö Waste-to-energy demonstration plant Ö Biofertilizer plant in Pakistan

INVENTIONS/NEW PRODUCTS
Recycled post-consumer polyamide Ö Removing anions from wastewater Ö Wastewater biofilter Ö Eco-friendly plastic Ö New software

R&D IDEAS
Cleaning up spent liquor Ö Improvement of separation membrane Ö Eco-friendly and stronger plastics Ö Bioadsorbers to recover heavy metals Ö Fly-ash used to purify water Ö Raw materials from waste egg shells Ö Adsorbed ozone cleans up wastewater Ö Microbes engineered to remove selenium

WASTE RECYCLING
Recycling of organic wastes Ö Integrated metal recovery system Ö Solvent recovery Ö Recycling oil containers Ö Continuous agglomerators Ö From waste to fuel-grade ethanol Ö PET recycling Ö Separating metals while recycling plastics Ö Waste polystyrene liquefaction technology Ö New glass recycling system Ö New techniques for recycling plastics

WASTE TREATMENT
Zero-pollution process for effluent treatment Ö New biofilter Ö New thermal oxidizer Ö New process to treat MTBE contamination Ö Mercury waste treatment technology Ö Sludge reduction and odour control Ö Metal recovery from wastewater Ö Variant to activated sludge processing

WASTE DISPOSAL/UTILIZATION
Effective recycling of biosolids Ö Sugar-cane waste converted into char Ö Zero-emission technology Ö Putting marble wastes to use Ö Waste degrader Ö Disposal of infectious wastes Ö New disposal technology Ö Fertilizer from organic waste

Waste-TO-ENERGY
Maximizing resource recovery Ö Alternative fuel from solid wastes Ö High-temperature gasification process

NEW PUBLICATIONS

TECH EVENTS