VATIS Update Waste Management is published 6 times a year to keep the readers up to date of most of the relevant and latest technological developments and events in the field of Waste Management. The Update is tailored to policy-makers, industries and technology transfer intermediaries.

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May-June 2008

 

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   IN THE NEWS  
 

#Green collection centres for e-waste mooted in India # Waste separation programme clicks in Hong Kong # Viet Nam plans for clean industry # Nationwide waste-management project in Sri Lanka # Pollution census launched in China # Plastic-to-energy idea wins backing in Thailand # Tie-up for waste management in Asia

   PLASTIC WASTES  
# Innovative process recycles waste EPS # Closed-loop recycling for reduced waste # Technique for recycling mixed plastics # New plastic waste recycling plant # Plastics granulators # Mixed plastics recycling plants
 
   ELECTRONIC WASTES  
# Feedstock recycling from the PCBs of used computers # Solvent system reduces spent battery hazard # Pyrolysis to recycle printed circuit boards
 
   PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS

# New way to reduce toxic industrial waste # Polymerization of cyclodextrin polyurethanes # Catalytic conversion of organic pollutants # Method of removal of PAHs from a liquid # Non-ionic surfactant solubilization of PAHs # Apparatus for destruction of organic pollutants

 
   INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER  
# Solution to turn sewage sludge into something useful #Anaerobic bio-treatment of textile dyes # Ammonia recovery for wastewater treatment plants # Compact, innovative biological wastewater treatment # Submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactor # FGD wastewater treatment system for power plants
 
   BIOREMEDIATION  
# Detoxifying wastewater through bioremediation # Bioremediation of TCE and TCA # Enhancement of in situ bioremediation of explosives # Clean water with bioremediation and nanofiltration # Bioremediation for radionuclides in radioactive water # Remediation of crude oil spills by microbes
 
   AIR POLLUTION CONTROL  
# NOx treatment with electrochemical reactors # Ultra low NOx biogasto- power conversion technology # Low-energy bubble scrubber # Volatile organic compound system # Knocking the NOx out of coal # New electrochemical reactor for efficient decomposing of NOx # NOx reduction systems for industrial power plants#Innovative low-NOx combustor # Removal of gaseous pollutants from upward flowing gas
 
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