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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.

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

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