As Northeast Disposal Capacity Shrinks, Waste by Rail Sets the Gate Fee
Northeast disposal capacity is losing sites that took 23% of 2024 tonnage. See how waste by rail, transload permits and haul costs will set your next gate fee.
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David Ayala
Project Development & Regional Markets. Project developer who has commissioned waste-to-energy facilities across the Americas and advised on regional market entry in Asia and the Gulf. Writes about getting projects from feasibility through commissioning, and on what makes one regional market open while another stays stalled. Published by Renewable Waste Energy.
Should You Put Autonomous Landfill Equipment on Your Site After WM's Cat Command Rollout?
WM's Cat Command bulldozer and its Caterpillar compactor test put autonomous landfill equipment in play. Here's when it pays for operators, and when to wait.
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Reduce Landfill Waste by Fixing the Order: Buyer First, Sorter Second
Reduce landfill waste by finding each stream a buyer before you buy the sorter. A developer's step-by-step playbook, from waste audit to offtake to residual.
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Why Is DOE Funding Community Waste-to-Energy Feasibility Studies Before Anyone Pours Concrete?
DOE's $6.9M WASTE program funds community waste-to-energy feasibility studies, not reactors. Why the front-end analysis, not technology, decides bankability.
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Vet a Waste-to-Energy Plant Manufacturer on the Guarantee, Not the Datasheet
Most buyers vet waste-to-energy plant manufacturers on technology. After three commissionings, I vet the availability guarantee and the reference plant instead.
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Waste-to-Energy Ash Is an Offtake Problem, Not a Disposal Line
Waste-to-energy ash disposal is a quarter of the input mass, and most US plants still landfill it. Bottom ash reuse and fly ash treatment decide the pro forma.
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Modular Waste Processing Sells a Schedule the Grid Won't Honor
Modular waste processing erects in four months, then waits years on an interconnection queue. Why the second module never lands, and what to sell instead.
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Landfill Mining Pays for the Airspace, Not the Aluminum
Landfill mining almost never pays for the recovered metal. It pays for reclaimed airspace, closure liability, or not at all - here's when the dig clears.
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40,000 Tonnes a Year, Locked for a Decade: Why Plastics-to-Fuels Lives or Dies on Feedstock Security
Abundia locked a decade of polyolefin feedstock before building Cedar Port. Why feedstock security, not the reactor, decides plastics-to-fuels projects.
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Africa's Dumpsite Crisis Is Real. Imported Waste-to-Energy Plants Keep Underperforming.
Waste to energy in Africa keeps underperforming, and Reppie shows why: plants built for dry European trash choke on wet, organic waste. Here's the real fix.
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Renewable Natural Gas From Anaerobic Digestion: Why Projects Stall at the Injection Meter
Renewable natural gas from anaerobic digestion clears the methane spec easily. The oxygen limit, interconnection queue, and RIN offtake are what stall projects.
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Southeast Asia's Waste-to-Energy Bet Comes Down to Who Pays the Tipping Fee
Waste-to-energy in Southeast Asia lives or dies on contract structure - see how Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines each price the risk differently.
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Four Beliefs About Waste Conversion Systems That Cost Operators Money
Four persistent myths about waste conversion systems - and the engineering data that disproves them. A process engineer's field perspective.
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Waste Management in Latin America: Why Projects Stall and What Actually Works
Latin America produces 540,000 tonnes of waste daily. Here's why infrastructure fails and the modular approaches finally gaining traction in the region.
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Municipal Solid Waste Solutions: Modern Alternatives Beyond the Landfill
How cities and waste operators are replacing landfill dependence with integrated sorting, pyrolysis conversion, and resource recovery systems that extract energy, fuel, and materials from municipal solid waste.
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What Is Waste-to-Energy? Guide to Modern WTE
A technical guide to waste-to-energy technology: how pyrolysis, radiant heat, and thermal conversion turn municipal waste into syngas, fuel, and power.
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