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Waste handling facilities are places that handle waste and help the environment at the same time

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

Waste handling facilities[]

  • Civic amenity site (CA Site)
  • Transfer station

Established waste treatment technologies[]

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)
  • In-vessel composting
  • Mechanical biological treatment
  • Mechanical heat treatment
  • Plasma arc waste disposal (commercial demonstration scale)
  • Pyrolysis
  • Sewage treatment
  • Tunnel composting
  • UASB (applied to solid wastes)
  • Waste autoclave

See also[]

  • Bioethanol
  • Biodiesel
  • List of waste management companies
  • List of waste water treatment technologies
  • Pollution control
  • Waste-to-energy

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