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[]
- 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)
- 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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