Awards
Candidate to the Biogas Hero 2023 award
Mario A. Rosato is one of the finalists for the WBA (World Biogas Association) Biogas Industry Awards 2023, in the category Biogas Hero. Sustainable Technologies’ CEO declared:
I’m honoured to be named as a finalist for the AD and Biogas Industry Awards 2023. Being shortlisted as a candidate for the title of Biogas Hero is a recognition of my contributions to the advancement of anaerobic digestion science and technology on a global scale.
This nomination is a testament to the years of research in the laboratory and field application that led to the development of my rational method of biogas plant management. I am truly grateful to the WBA Committee for the opportunity to be acknowledged for it. I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to my colleagues in the scientific community, customers, students, readers, the editorial staff of Agronotizie and Editoriale Delfino, and to the organisers of my courses: ADMIL, Tutto Ambiente and ADBA/WBA. A special thanks to the editorial staff of Taylor & Francis, whose contribution was key to the worldwide diffusion of my method for the rational management of biogas plants.
Sustainable Technologies featured in Top Tier Startups
Thanks to Top Tier Startups for the recognition of Mario A. Rosato’s long career in research and innovation.
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International award for a humanitarian project
The NGO World Vision has awarded Sustainable Technologies with the most versatile design of a low-cost modular latrine, which nevertheless complies with all the requirements of the EN 16194:2012 standard. The design includes the following additional aspects, not considered in the said norm:
a) The structure is capable of resisting a Cat. I hurricane.
b) It is possible to adapt it to the different cultural preferences (sitting or squatting) and water availability (dry WC but with a flush system), depending on the instalaltion in Subsaharian Africa, S.E. Asia or remote zones of Latin America.
c) It separes the urine from the faeces, in order to employ the first ones for fertirrigation and to sanificate the second with 3 different methods, depending on the context.
d) The construction employs panels pre-fabricated on site, using vegetal fibres agglomerated with Portland cement. The C balance is neutral.
New challenge award
Mario A. Rosato has won once more the first prize among 361 solvers competing in the Innocentive Challenge Converting Heat Contained in Waste Water Effluents into Forms of Energy for On-site Use.
The award-winning idea is a thermodynamic heat pump with a novel absorption cycle, capable of producing low-pressure steam from wastewater at 75 °C.
Jury of the Adriano Olivetti Award

Sustainable Technologies’s CEO, Mario A. Rosato, was nominated one of the jurymen to decide the Adriano Olivetti Award, 2015. The contest, organized by the Italian Association of Educators (AIF), intends to honour companies, institutes and individual characterized by the excellence in educational projects. There are ten categories of awards in which each project can compete. The award ceremony will take place in Florence on 3rd December 2015, within the 1st Congress on New Education for Renewed Business.
Candidates to the European Business Award
The Italian portal Agronotizie.it, of which Sustainable Technologies is editor about bioenergy, is candidate to the European Business Award. Help us support the free information of quality by voting the portal in the following link.
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Electronic waste recycling conference in Orlando
New technology for e-waste recycling
Mario A. Rosato and Simon Greer, winners of the CEA-Innocentive challenge on e waste recycling (recovering lead from CRT glass) present their solutions during the E-Scrap conference in Orlando, USA. Panel moderator Allison Schumacher, Policies Senior Manager of CEA (Consumer Electronics Association). With thanks to Mrs. Julie North for the video recording. Presentation in PDF available on request, please fill in the form.
International Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Award
Partners in Protecting the Planet (PPP) has awarded Sustainable Technologies the bronze prize to the excellence in corporate social responsibility (CSR) , in the category “INTERNATIONAL”.
The award ceremony took place in London, on board of the HMS Belfast , on 29th July 2013
Download the press release here. Know more about the CSR Excellence Award here.







