WELCOME TO WtERT ISRAEL
Bridging the gap between science and decision making
The Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WtERT) is an international top-tier-technical group that brings together engineers, scientists, and managers from industry, universites and government with the objective of advancing the goals of sustainable waste management on a global scale.
The Israeli chapter of Global WtERT Council (GWC) was founded in partnership with the Porter School of Environmental at Tel Aviv University to promote in Israel, energy recovery from waste by the conversion of non-recyclable waste materials into usable heat, electricity or fuel through a Waste-to-Energy facility, to solve two major challenges in Israel : the disposal of solid waste and the generation of clean energy to reduce GHG emissions.
חברי מועצת WtERT העולמית כוללת
אוניברסיטאות ומוסדות מחקר מלמעלה מ-30 מדינות ברחבי העולם ומוכרים כאחד ממרכזי המחקר המובילים בעולם בנושא ניהול פסולת בר-קיימא
WtERT מפגישה בין אקדמיה ומנהלים מהתעשייה לקידום ניהול פסולת בר קיימא.
מאז 1997, הצוות שלנו למד את כל השיטות הקיימות לניהול פסולת עירונית לאחר מיחזור ברחבי העולם.
בעשור האחרון, GWC פרסמה למעלה ממאה מאמרים ותזות על היבטים רבים של אנרגיה בת קיימא וניהול פסולת בר קיימא
Dedicated Teams
Academic & Industry Partners
Global Know-how
התמקדות בחדשנות ומחקר
Dedicated Teams
Members of the Global WtERT Council include universities and research institutions from over 30 countries around the world and recognized as one of the world’s foremost research centers on sustainable waste management
Academic & Industry Partners
Global Know-how
WtERT brings together academia and managers from industry to advance sustainable waste management.
Since 1997, Our team has studied all existing methods for managing post-recycling urban wastes around the world.
Focus On Innovation & Research
In the last decade, GWC has published over one hundred papers and theses on many aspects of sustainable energy and sustainable waste management
INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
WtERT Hierarchy of Waste Management
It is a graphical way of showing the priorities for managing solid wastes. The first priority is to avoid the generation of wastes (e.g., reduced consumption of goods, less packaging) followed by recycling (paper, metals, plastics) and composting of source-separated organic wastes, followed by combustion with energy recovery (“waste-to-energy”), and finally landfilling. However, not all landfills are the same. Modern “sanitary” landfills require a serious investment and effort to protect surface and ground water and to collect landfill gas (LFG) and use it to generate energy. Therefore, the expanded hierarchy of waste management differentiates between better and worse types of landfills as illustrated below.
OUR RESEARCH
Resource recovery From Municipal Solid Waste
Resource recovery from waste can be done using technologies such as anaerobic digestion, gasification, and combustion with energy recovery. The choice of technology is based on the quality and quantity of the waste.
Waste to Energy (WTE)
Waste to energy (WTE)
power plants, such as the one shown above, use as fuel municipal solid wastes (MSW) to generate electricity or provide district or industrial heating. Metals and minerals are recovered from the WTE ash. There are over one thousand WTE plants worldwide fueled by three hundred million tons of wastes.
Gasification
is the process of converting waste into a gaseous fuel (called syngas) by exposure to high temperatures in the presence of oxygen or steam.
Solid Recovered Fuel
Wastes can be separated to recyclable and combustible materials. The latter are called refuse derived fuel (RDF), combusted in WTE power plants, and solid recovered fuel (SRF), used in cement kilns.
Pyrolysis
High heating value wastes, such as plastics, rubber, etc. are thermally decomposed, in the absence of oxygen, to form liquid fuels.
THE BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY
How Waste-to-Energy Works?
A Waste-to-Energy plant converts solid waste into electricity and/or heat – an ecological, cost-effective way of energy recovery.
Our Partners
WtERT Israel works with several organizations and individuals to promote
best available technologies for sustainable waste management
to recover material and energy in Israel