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Bangladesh National Action Planning for Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Working with CCAC in 2013, Bangladesh developed a plan for reducing short-lived climate pollutants, including methane. Between 2016 and 2018, efforts focused on capacity building for the plan's adoption, followed by development of a work plan for implementation. Bangladesh determined its most impactful actions were introducing clean-burning biomass cooking stoves, replacing traditional kilns with modern technologies, and phasing out high emission vehicles.

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  • Global Methane Initiative (GMI)
  • Climate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)
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01 Jan 2013
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Japan Reduces Methane from Landfills

In 2016, Japan adopted two new standards on waste management: (1) reduction in the amount of waste for final disposal, which banned the direct landfilling of organic municipal solid waste and industrial waste; and (2) adoption of semi-aerobic landfill structure in final waste disposal sites. The Japan Ministry of the Environment reported a decrease in total and per capita volumes of waste generation from 2019 to 2020.

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  • Global Methane Initiative (GMI)
  • Japan Ministry of the Environment
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01 Jan 2016
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Indore - A City Transformed

The city of Indore was driven to success by strong political and administrative commitment to improving waste management through comprehensive source segregated waste collection, recycling of dry waste, treatment of wet waste, and minimal waste being disposed at a sanitary landfill. The city launched multiple awareness campaigns that educated the public on waste segregation and household composting and implemented a 15-acre biogas plant that can process 500 tons of waste per day and mitigate 130,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year. Within one year (2016-2017), Indore was ranked the cleanest city in India in a national cleanliness survey of cities.

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  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA)
  • Indore Municipal Corporation
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01 Jan 2016
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Addressing Methane Emissions Through the Zero Waste Cities Initiative

The Zero Waste Cities Initiative is focused on segregating waste collection and processing decentralized organic waste in residential areas. This effort helps to minimize landfill-bound waste and avoid incineration of waste while promoting the local economy. The segregated collection model has been developed in 9 cities and municipalities in Indonesia, covering about 480,000 residents and has the potential to reduce organic waste to landfill by 6,500 tonnes per year. The Initiative influenced the West Java provincial government's decision to ban organic waste in landfills. This policy change has the potential to result in a 22% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from Bandung City alone.

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  • Yaksa Pelestari Bumi Berkelanjutan (YPBB)
  • Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
  • Alliance for Zero Waste Indonesia
  • Break Free from Plastic
  • Bandung Zero Waste Forum
  • PPLH Bali
  • Ecoton
  • Environmental Agencies of Bandung City
  • Environmental
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01 Jan 2016
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The Danish Biocover Initiative - Methane Mitigation at Older and Smaller Landfills

In 2017, the Biocover Initiative was established with governmental support to obtain methane emissions reductions from older landfills containing organic waste. Due to their decreased cost efficiency, older and smaller landfills present a challenge for utilizing landfill gas for energy purposes. The project relies on bio-oxidation technology which microbially converts methane to biogenic carbon dioxide by filtering the landfill gas through compost layers. Preliminary results from 18 of the 22 established systems show an average methane oxidation efficiency of almost 70% higher than the average extraction efficiency of Danish landfill gas utilization facilities (50%).

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  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Environmental Protection Agency, Ministry of Environment of Denmark
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01 Jan 2017
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Recycle Organics: Reducing 30% of Methane Emissions from the Waste Sector by 2030

The goal of Recycle Organics is to accelerate the implementation of methane mitigation projects in the waste sector and create conditions for a sustained expansion of organic waste technologies. Public policy guidelines and recommendations that strengthened the waste management system and accelerated methane mitigation were implemented. The project raised awareness and scientific diffusion with an educational curriculum in Chile, the use of social media, and more than 20 workshops which trained over 480 individuals. Under the project, development of measurement, reporting, and verification protocols to estimate emission reduction potential in waste treatment projects and quantifying emissions from the national waste sector was done.

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  • Center for Clean Air Policy
  • ImplementaSur
  • Environment and Climate Change Canada
  • Global Methane Hub
  • Climate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)
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01 Jan 2017
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Pilot Waste-to-Energy Project in the Biogas Sector

Biothermica Technologies Inc. used an innovative waste-to-energy technology in Haiti to convert municipal solid waste into renewable biogas, significantly reducing methane emissions. Plans are underway for an engineered sanitary landfill with biomethane production technology that will be used as fuel by waste collection vehicles and as bottled gas in substitution of propane and wood/mangrove for local biodiversity conservation. The project anticipates reduction of 6 million tons of equivalent CO2 emissions over 30 years, a reduction of the reliance of imported fossil fuels, and health improvements within the local population.

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  • Biothermica Technologies Inc.
  • Terres des Jeunes Transnational
  • Bioénergie Haiti
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01 Jan 2017
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Landfill Gas Collection Efficiencies at Danish Landfills

European regulations require landfill gas to be monitored and managed to reduce methane emissions, which can be done using gas collection and biocover systems. There is minimal guidance on how to monitor and assess mitigation actions and as a result the efficiency of mitigation systems is seldom evaluated. This project determined gas collection efficiencies at 23 Danish landfills and compared collection efficiencies with literature values and potential limit values. The research showed that gas collection efficiency could be improved by reducing gas leaks from installations, improving gas collection, securing coverage of landfill surfaces, and repairing damaged cover soil.

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  • Technical University of Denmark
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01 Jan 2018
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Zero Waste System for Rapidly Growing Cities

To address the waste crisis in Tanzania, a Zero Waste System was implemented in 2019, aiming to eliminate waste through reduction, reuse, recycling, and recovery without burning, incinerating, or discharging to land, rivers, or oceans. The zero waste model is a decentralized approach in which the management of solid waste starts at the source with segregation of waste at the household level. The system achieved 95% compliance of separation of waste at the source, diversion of 75-85% of waste from landfills, and recovery of more than 39 tons of organic waste per month. Additional benefits are increased soil carbon storage from organics when applied to soil and less use of synthetic fertilizer.

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  • Nipe Fagio
  • GAIA
  • Mother Earth Foundation
  • Urban Movement Innovation Fund
  • Foundation NERE
  • BreakFreeFromPlastic
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01 Jan 2019
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Albania's Landfill Methane Capture Strategy

Albania conducted a greenhouse gas inventory and set a goal to begin capturing methane in 2025 and increase the amount captured until 2030. Additionally, they set goals to increase the amount of composted waste by an additional 3 percent annually until 2030.

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  • Global Methane Initiative (GMI)
  • Government of Albania
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01 Jan 2019
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