Indonesia: The La Tofi School of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has named Semen Indonesia as the winner in three categories at the Nusantara CSR Awards 2020, including Community Involvement in Handling Waste. Indonesia Government News has reported that the award acknowledges the company’s uptake of practices and technologies to increase the alternative fuel (AF) substitution rate. It partnered with Jakarta Province Environment Agency (DLH) and Unilever Indonesia to co-process domestic waste from the Bantargebang waste disposal site as fuel for cement plants.

Italy: Waste management company Entsorga has offered a prototype near infrared technology (NIR) separator to the Saturno research project into manufacturing organic waste and CO₂ into biofuels, bio-fertilisers and biochemicals. The scheme brings together 25 partner organisations, including cement manufacturer Buzzi Unicem. The prototype sorter will be used by Gaia, a waste management company based in the Province of Asti, to sort residual plastics and to remove polyvinyl chloride (PVC) fractions with higher chlorine content. Plastics that cannot be reused will then be passed to cement plants as an alternative fuel.

US: The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has named Beumer Group winner of its Chairman’s Manufacturing Performance Award 2020. The award is for economical and sustainable operations. It acknowledges Beumer Group’s alternative fuels and raw materials (AFR) systems business unit’s achievements in supporting cement producers with complete systems to supply calciners and main burners with alternative fuels and raw materials, the main component of which is the pipe conveyor. "I am very honoured to receive this recognition on behalf of Beumer Group,” said Brian Giese, Beumer Corporation Director of Business Development, Conveying & Loading. "It demonstrates our commitment to support cement manufacturers in their efforts to make production greener and more sustainable."

Business development, conveying and loading director Brian Giese said, "I am very honoured to receive this recognition on behalf of Beumer Group. It demonstrates our commitment to support cement manufacturers in their efforts to make production greener and more sustainable."

Canada: The Capital Regional District (CRD) in British Colombia has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ḱenes Transportation, a Wsáneć First Nations partnership company, to contract the transportation of biomass produced at a sewage treatment unit at Hartland Landfill to Lafarge Canada’s Richmond cement plant. The dehydrated biofuel made from treated wastewater is then coprocessed as an alternative fuel at the integrated cement plant. The agreement will last up to five years while the CRD develops long term plans for the biosolids, according to the Times Colonist newspaper.