The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to sustainability indicators for waste-to-energy supply chains

A team of researchers have designed a project to develop a triple-bottom line sustainability (social, environment, economic) assessment tool for local government to evaluate trade-offs of different organic waste streams and energy conversion strategies that help achieve local/regional policy objectives over the current and long-term. While there is intrinsic opportunity in carbon recovery/minimizing carbon intensity in underutilized organic waste feedstocks (334-411 Tg/yr), local government lack the data and tools required to evaluate sustainability trade-offs for various technology pathways • barriers in the development of waste-to-energy plans. André Coleman and Timothy Seiple of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory led the presentation team at DOE Project Peer Review.