List of solid waste treatment technologies

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

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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Major types

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• Biomedical waste
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• Municipal solid waste
• Open defecation
• Packaging waste
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• Radioactive waste
• Scrap metal
• Sewage
• Sharps waste
• Surface runoff
• Toxic waste

Processes

• Anaerobic digestion
• Balefill
• Biodegradation
• Composting
• Garden waste dumping
• Illegal dumping
• Incineration
• Landfill
• Landfill mining
• Mechanical biological treatment
• Mechanical sorting
• Photodegradation
• Recycling
• Resource recovery
• Sewage treatment
• Urban mining
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• Waste sorting
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Agreements

• Bamako Convention
• Basel Convention
• EU directives
  • batteries
    • Recycling
  • framework
  • incineration
  • landfills
  • RoHS
  • vehicles
  • waste water
  • WEEE
• London Convention
• Oslo Convention
• OSPAR Convention

Occupations

• Sanitation worker
• Street sweeper
• Waste collector
• Waste picker

Other topics

• Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future
• China's waste import ban
• Cleaner production
• Downcycling
• Eco-industrial park
• Extended producer responsibility
• High-level radioactive waste management
• History of waste management
• Landfill fire
• Sewage regulation and administration
• Upcycling
• Waste hierarchy
• Waste legislation
• Waste minimisation
• Zero waste

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