List of solid waste treatment technologies
Topic: Engineering
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The article 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
- Incineration
- Landfill
- Recycling
- Specific to organic waste:
- Anaerobic digestion
- 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)
- Mechanical heat treatment
- Molten salt oxidation
- Pyrolysis
- UASB (applied to solid wastes)
- Waste autoclave
- Specific to organic waste:
See also
- Bioethanol
- Biodiesel
- List of waste management companies
- List of wastewater treatment technologies
- Pollution control
- Waste-to-energy
- Burn pit
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