An Introduction to Waste Technologies

An Introduction to Waste Technologies eBook

The Processes Used to Recycle, Treat, and Divert Municipal Solid Waste Away From Landfills.

Author: Steve Last MICE, MCIWM, CEnv

All waste management students and professionals will find this useful.

The waste management sector is transforming itself from an underfunded cinderella industry into a highly technologically sophisticated business sector, by adoption of the waste treatment technologies in this ebook.

Find out what all these different waste processes are:-

Mechanical Biological Treatment MBT

• Unsorted/residual waste Materials Recovery Facility Dirty MRF
• Segregated Materials Recovery Facility Clean MRF
• Energy from Waste
• Anaerobic Digestion
   
• Composting

           o Windrow
           o In-vessel

• Mechanical Heat Treatment

        o Autoclaving
        o Pyrolysis & Gasification
        o Co-Incineration
        o Plasma Arc for Waste Disposal

and more!

49 Pages: All written concisely with flow diagarms, tables which list the strengths and weaknesses of each process technology, and with broadly assessed process costs.,

The author is a waste/ resource management professional with 20 over years experience.

Understand all the acronyms for these processes and the reasoning behind the choice of waste system in your area.