| | October 20216Copyright © 2021 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof. OCTOBER - 04 - 2021, Vol 05 - Issue 04 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to Utilities Tech OutlookVisit www.utilitiestechoutlook.com SalesRich Gonsalvesrich@utilitiestechoutlook.comVisualizersDavid ParkerManaging EditorOlivia SmithEDITOR'S DESKThe rapidly growing economies, increased urbanization, and exponential population growth have led to a major spike in resource consumption, consequently leading to significant waste generation, today. All the more, with the pandemic, disposing of several materials like masks, single-use plastics, PPE kits and many more, has produced massive volumes of waste across the world. This is driving the waste industry to undergo seismic changes to cater to the new needs of waste management. Presently, the world is witnessing the pitfalls in the traditional disposal methods in handling the increasing need, whereby waste is dumped into water bodies and oceans. This is bringing in immense environmental pollution and harming flora and fauna, and humans as well. However, there's an escape! The crux of the situation has steered government authorities globally to take strict measures to ensure apt waste management by introducing cutting-edge technologies and encouraging partnerships between private firms, startups, governments, municipalities, manufacturers, recyclers and many more. One of the prominent trends in this space recently has been the conversion of waste into energy, with governments promoting financial incentives and tax benefits to motivate organizations to work on waste reuse and recycle. The waste to energy conversion plans include greenhouse gas credits to businesses disposing of their waste through several governments initiated projects. Further, in many countries, local authorities engage majorly in waste recycling by developing rules and regulations. For instance, Denmark devised recycling laws and regulations, which encouraged several other local authorities across the world to create laws that can facilitate collection, processing, reducing and overall sustainable management of waste. Again, with the tech industry progressing at a prolific pace, technology-enabled systems are being deployed more and more in the waste management space, assisting in the division of waste. Recycling facilities are harnessing the capabilities of chipped recycle waste, GPS-guided compacters and robotic systems to segregate and manage waste.As populations across the globe realize the grave issues of faulty waste management systems, it can induce the creation of newer innovative and unique waste management solutions. In fact, the global waste management market has already taken a steep rise along its curve with multiple players focused on offering unique technologies and methodologies to enable industries and households to attain the principle of Zero Waste­3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle). On this note, Utilities Tech Outlook brings its new edition to shed light on the best-in-class waste management solution providers in Europe 2021.Let us know your thoughts!Olivia Smith Managing Editoreditor@utilitiestechooutlook.comIncreased Waste Stirring the Growth of New Reduce-Reuse-Recycle Solutions*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staffEditorial StaffAaron Pierce Ava GarciaJoshua Parker Kenny PeruzziVian Isaac
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