Municipal Solid Waste Proceedings

Municipal Solid Waste Subcommittee Meeting

Final Subcommittee Meeting Minutes (PDF, 14 pp, 134 KB)


Welcome and Introductions

Tom Frankiewicz and Diana Milena Rodríguez, Subcommittee Co-Chairs

Subcommittee Business

Tom Frankiewicz and Diana Milena Rodríguez, Subcommittee Co-Chairs

Country Updates

  • Brief updates on methane action plans and other sector-specific activities within each country
  • Partners below provided electronic presentations for website, but did not deliver verbal update/attend meeting:

Waste Sector NAMAs Discussion

Summary of Action Items Discussed at this Meeting

Tom Frankiewicz and Diana Milena Rodríguez, Subcommittee Co-Chairs

  • Meeting action items
  • Specific tasks meeting participants agree to accomplish and report on by next meeting
  • Possible agenda topics for the next subcommittee meeting

Municipal Solid Waste Technical Sessions

(Note: links not provided for presentations that did not have supporting slides)


Municipal Solid Waste Technical Session A - Methane Abatement

Bio-Cancun: Organic Waste to Energy Project in Mexico

Arvind Chandrasekar, SENES Consultants Limited (PDF, 27 pp, 5 MB)


Semi-formal Recycling as a Viable Option for Methane Abatement in Developing Countries

Sandra Mazo-Nix, SCS Engineers (PDF, 30 pp, 594 KB)


Reducing Black Carbon Emissions from Open Burning: A Co-Benefit of Landfill Methane Recovery

Nimmi Damodaran, Stratus Consulting, Inc. (PDF, 24 pp, 4.72 KB)


Municipal Solid Waste Technical Session B - Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reductions from Waste Sector

Better Waste Management Can Avoid GHG Emissions Significantly

Marlene Sieck, Federal Environment Agency (PDF, 24 pp, 793 KB)


GHG Emissions and Energy Potential by Waste Destination in Brazil

Carlos Silva Filho, ABRELPE - Brazilian Association of Waste Management Companies (PDF, 28 pp, 2.61 MB)


A Municipal Waste Analysis in Mexico's Southeast Region for GHG Reduction

Ramon Delgado, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (PDF, 21 pp, 1.80 MB)


Landfill Gas Recovery and Combustion with Renewable Energy Generation from Sanitary Landfill Sites under Land Bank of the Philippines Carbon Finance Support Facility

Josefina A. Ramos, Land Bank of the Philippines (PDF, 13 pp, 1.27 MB)


Methane as a Fuel for Community Economic Development

Paul Liddy, Cedar Road Bioenergy Inc.


Economic Comparison of a GHG Emission Reduction System at a Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Facility

Richard Aho, Marquette County Solid Waste Management Authority (PDF, 58 pp, 4.85 MB)


Best Practices to Select Internal Combustion Engines and Maximize the Economic Benefits of Converting Methane to Electricity

Mauricio Lopez, Caterpillar Americas Services Co. (PDF, 20 pp, 656 KB)


Municipal Solid Waste Technical Session C - Case Studies and Project Development

Maximizing GHG Reductions at the Vancouver Landfill

Lynn Belanger, City of Vancouver, and Alex Stege, SCS Engineers (PDF, 41 pp, 6.63 MB)


Landfill Gas Utilization - Coquitlam Landfill in Canada

Harvey Choy, Metro Vancouver (PDF, 25 pp, 928 KB)


Novo Gramacho Landfill Gas Biomethane Purification Project in Brazil

Enrique Ruiz, FirmGreen, Inc. (PDF, 22 pp, 2.25 MB)


Development of Landfill Gas Technology in Ukraine - Status and Prospects

Yuri Matveev, Renewable Energy Agency (REA), SEC Biomass (PDF, 21 pp, 1.74 MB)


Application of ORC-process for Landfill Gas CHP-Efficiency Optimization

Jukka Salmela, Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority (PDF, 18 pp, 1.22 MB)


Possibilities and Obstacles for Utilization of Methane from Landfills in Serbia

Goran Vujic, University of Novi Sad (ZIP, 49 MB)