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List of solid waste treatment technologies

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List of solid waste treatment technologies

The following page contains a list of different forms of solid waste treatment technologies and facilities employed in waste management infrastructure.

Contents

Waste handling facilities

  • Civic amenity site (CA site)
  • Transfer station

    • Established waste treatment technologies

  • Composting
  • Incineration
  • Landfill
  • Recycling
  • Windrow composting

    • Alternative waste treatment technologies

    In the UK these are sometimes termed advanced waste treatment technologies, even though these technologies are not necessarily more complex than the established technologies.

  • Anaerobic digestion
  • Alcohol/ethanol production
  • Bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels (pilot scale)
  • Biodrying
  • Gasification
  • GasPlasma: Gasification followed by syngas plasma polishing (commercial test scale)
  • Landfarming
  • In-vessel composting
  • Mechanical biological treatment
  • Mechanical heat treatment
  • Plasma arc waste disposal (commercial demonstration scale)
  • Pyrolysis
  • Refuse-derived fuel
  • Sewage treatment
  • Tunnel composting
  • UASB (applied to solid wastes)
  • Waste autoclave

    • References

    List of solid waste treatment technologies Wikipedia
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