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Eco Factor: Food waste being converted into methane to produce electricity. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that food waste accounts for about 20% of all landfill waste and each year more than 30 million tons of food waste makes it...

Eco Factor: Anaerobic incineration of waste to generate electricity for US Army. Defense company QinetiQ has been awarded a contract by the US Army according to which the company will supply a system that will help the armed forces generate...

Eco Factor: Waste-to-energy conversion plant to be built in New Delhi. New Delhi doesn’t want its International Airport to suffer because of the lack of 400MW of electrical power the city currently longs for. Preparing itself for the 2010...

Eco Factor: German brewery generates energy from waste grain. While brewing isn’t in itself a green process, considering the energy intensive processes that are used, a German scientist feels that he might have developed what the brewing...

Eco Factor: Waste-to-energy plant generates renewable energy from wastewater sludge. Houston-based MaxWest Environmental Systems is developing a one-of-a-kind wastewater treatment plant in Sanford which when developed will be able to convert...