List of solid waste treatment technologies

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

## Contents

* 1 Waste handling facilities
* 2 Established waste treatment technologies
* 3 Alternative waste treatment technologies
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## Waste handling facilities

* Civic amenity site (CA site)
* Transfer station

## Established waste treatment technologies

* Incineration
* Landfill
* Recycling
* Specific to organic waste:
* Anaerobic digestion
* Composting
* Windrow composting

## Alternative waste treatment technologies

In the UK some of these are sometimes termed advanced waste treatment technologies

* Biodrying
* Gasification
* Plasma gasification: Gasification assisted by plasma torches
* Hydrothermal carbonization
* Hydrothermal liquefaction
* Mechanical biological treatment (sorting into selected fractions)
* Refuse-derived fuel
* Mechanical heat treatment
* Molten salt oxidation
* Pyrolysis
* UASB (applied to solid wastes)
* Waste autoclave
* Specific to organic waste:
* Bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels
* In-vessel composting
* Landfarming
* Sewage treatment
* Tunnel composting

## See also

* Bioethanol
* Biodiesel
* List of waste management companies
* List of wastewater treatment technologies
* Pollution control
* Waste-to-energy
* Burn pit

## References

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