Swiss Technology: from Waste to Energy

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Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE), in collaboration with Envirosolve Limited, held a webinar with clean technology experts from Switzerland in November, 2021.  S-GE is Switzerland’s export promotion agency, and Envirosolve Limited is a New Zealand company focused on emission technology and energy efficiency.

Switzerland has become one of the world’s leaders in the fields of waste management and recycling.  Highly innovative companies and research institutions, combined with environmental law dating back to the 1980s, have forced private households and public authorities to recycle material and treat waste in a sustainable manner.  Designated plants, using highly sophisticated and constantly evolving modern technology, now treat and process waste streams.

The webinar emphasised: 

• Outlining the situation of daily waste management: recycling and landfills in New Zealand.

• 3D virtual tour through waste to energy plants.

• Demonstration of the recycling of bottom ash from waste to energy plants.

• An opportunity to put questions to the expert panel from Switzerland.

Please contact Rene Haeberli (Envirosolve Limited) to discuss options that are available, and viable, for New Zealand to consider in bringing about a Zero-Carbon Economy: the use of clean technology plants to complement wider waste, recycling, and energy initiatives to move beyond current waste management practice, in particular, the use of landfills.