Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

The statement underlines the contribution of waste to energy towards a sustainable Europe, thanks to its role in energy and material self-sufficiency, its complementarity with recycling and renewable energy, but also with other industries.

Prof. Nickolas Themelis and the Earth Engineering Center at Columbia University, founder of the Global WtERT Council, are proud of our many foreign alumni trained in sustainable waste management. Among the self-destructive regulations implemented by the outgoing US administration, there were seven against students coming to study in the US. In this open letter, Columbia President Bollinger asks President-elect Joe Biden to restore sanity. https://news.columbia.edu//bollinger-calls-biden-end-trump

Dr. Samet Ozturk of WtERT-Turkey presented a paper titled "Waste Management in E.U., Asia and Turkey" at the Eurasia 2020 Symposium You will find the entire paper here - https://drive.google.com//1G4CG4IIbsF3-7BaB3FsqFv_Xy/view. Head here to know more about the symposium - http://www.eurasiasymposium.com/index.php

Prof Themelis speaks to the journalist in this story. Quoting from the article: This hope to recycle everything is beyond what’s possible, Nickolas Themelis, the founder of Columbia University’s Earth Engineering Center and a major proponent of waste-to-energy incinerators, told VICE News. It’s never been done in the world.

"In addition to the terrible harm that the Trump presidency has done to the US with mishandling the COVID plague (100,000 deaths), it is now adding to the injury by blaming WHO." - Prof Nickolas J. Themelis Read the fact-check below.