Waste Management 2015
What initiatives, policies and technologies can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from waste and waste management?
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, post-consumer waste contributes approximately 3% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, primarily from the disposal of solid waste through landfills and incineration, and of liquid waste through sewage treatment. This contest seeks proposals that can significantly contribute to reducing GHG emissions from any aspect of waste and waste management.
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Proposals
Llegar al centro de las grandes empresas, dándoles iniciativas y formación para la disminución del efecto invernadero
Norma reguladora de los residuos producidos en los hogares a nivel mundial
Dry waste organic matter and invasive plants and bury in dry caves.
Utilizing religious waste to generate organic fertilizers in Indian temple corridors and reduce water pollution.
GreenSpaceNewLife @simranvedvyas @SynergY plant trees to green landfills; reduce CO2 emmissions reduce waste increase healthy oxygen cover
Student teams across India create waste management social start-ups in 1 km vicinity. Enabled through a mobile-based online leader board.
When you walk your dog you scan your phone over the waste and a Amazon like delivery system picks it up.
Carbon sequestration of organic wastes via pyrolysis. Waste to energy and biofertilizer approach, and farm dispersal vs landfilling.
Evaluating desert landfill carbon sequestration efficiency and changing solid waste disposal policies.
La implementación de métodos de selección de residuos genera gran valor monetario; Por lo tanto nosotros como personas debemos contribuir para la preservación del medio ambiente
iniciativas que reducen los patrones de consumo contaminacion, aumentar el uso de material reciclado en nuevos productos.
The GHG Rescue Project seeks to buy segregated waste from households in Accra Ghana and sell it to Recycling Companies.
Lo que buscamos por medio de esta propuesta, es transformar la basura en un biocombustible
Using Nualgi to grow Diatoms is the most economical & sustainable solution to sewage treatment,growing fish & fuel and sequester carbon.
The challenge in getting people to understand WHY segregate is bigger than HOW. WHY has a MILLION reasons can you add to make it a BILLION.