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What if we could somehow turn our business and domestic waste, which we cannot recycle, into clean green energy?

Well it’s starting to happen and here we profile the latest green initiatives that are starting to get some traction, one scheme even aims to sell back the excess energy it creates turning waste into energy (in a clean way) back to grid and thereby actually making money. Wouldn’t it be great to have companies paying you for your home/business waste that nowadays goes to landfill? Surely you might say that it’s a far-away dream, but these initiatives are starting to show that it will hopefully be a reality someday (very) soon.

According to CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment), Waste to energy technologies include anaerobic digestion; incineration; use of secondary recovered fuel (an output from mechanical and biological treatment processes); pyrolysis; gasification and plasma arc heating. Currently around 8 per cent of municipal waste is treated by waste to energy facilities but it is estimated this will rise to at least 25 per cent by 2020. (more…)

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Hybrid vehicles and electric vehicles have been around for a while now but the concept of hydrogen-powered automobiles is a relatively new concept. We’ve yet to see a commercially viable hydrogen-powered vehicle.

However, Scottish and Southern Electricity (SSE) has agreed to test hydrogen-fuelled vans in an attempt to decarbonising its fleet of vans which regularly travel the length and breadth of the country. (more…)

The Park Spark features a gas lamp fuelled by dog poop / Image Source: Gizmag

Last month we told you about a car that uses methane gas generated from the sewage-treatment process. Well, here’s another interesting project from an American conceptual artist Matthew Mazzotta who would like to see the dog poop fed into digesters that use it to produce methane gas, which is then used for fuel. The project/installation — called Park Spark at a dog park in Cambridge, Massachusetts — features a lamp that lights the park at night, powered by nothing but dog doo. (more…)