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
Using Nualgi to grow Diatoms is the most economical & sustainable solution to sewage treatment,growing fish & fuel and sequester carbon.
The GHG Rescue Project seeks to buy segregated waste from households in Accra Ghana and sell it to Recycling Companies.
Chemosynthetic production of biomass, using sewage nutrients, can provide carbon negative fuel and biochar to even small/poor communities.
As waste national legislation develops, a market pull for recycled materials must be developed by the industry to ensure a circular economy.
Creating opportunities to compost animal manure in combination with agricultural vegetable waste is a method that can reduce GHG emissions.
Imagine an app that recycles your old phones, fights #globalwarming and pays you to boot! Well, we built it in China.
Student teams across India create micro community waste management social start-ups. Enabled through a mobile-based online leader board.
Carbon sequestration of organic wastes via pyrolysis. Waste to energy and biofertilizer approach, and farm dispersal vs landfilling.
GreenSpaceNewLife @simranvedvyas @SynergY plant trees to green landfills; reduce CO2 emmissions reduce waste increase healthy oxygen cover