A Changing Climate Places New Importance on Comprehensive Waste Management
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recycling and waste management play an important role in the fight against climate change. Solid waste directly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions through the generation of methane from the anaerobic decay of waste in landfills, and the emission of nitrous oxide from our solid waste combustion facilities. Both of these greenhouse gases have high global warming potential: methane has 21 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide has 310 times the warming potential. According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) of the Kyoto protocol, there is a great potential for addressing methane emissions by reducing the amount of waste that ends up in a landfill. Globally nearly 70% of our solid waste is landfilled, a meagre 19% is recovered through composting or recycling, and the remaining 11% is converted to energy through incineration or other waste-to-energy technologies. E-Home Household Service Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: EJH), Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM), Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG), Waste Connections, Inc. (NYSE: WCN), NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE)
- NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recycling and waste management play an important role in the fight against climate change.
- Solid waste directly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions through the generation of methane from the anaerobic decay of waste in landfills, and the emission of nitrous oxide from our solid waste combustion facilities.
- The contracts have been awarded following E-Home's announcement to launch specialized waste classification, energy saving and emission reduction household Services on July 14.
- Next, we'll continue expand our efforts to more waste management options, including energy-from-waste facilities that provide a means for waste disposal while also generating clean electricity.