Waste handling facilities

"Wanted Articles"

Waste handling facilities are places that handle waste and help the environment at the same time

The following page 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

 * Composting
 * Incineration
 * Landfill
 * Recycling
 * Windrow composting

Alternative waste treatment technologies
In the UK these are sometimes termed advanced waste treatment technologies, even though these technologies are not necessarily more complex than the established technologies.
 * Anaerobic digestion
 * Alcohol/ethanol production
 * Bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels (pilot scale)
 * Biodrying
 * Gasification
 * GasPlasma: Gasification followed by syngas plasma polishing (commercial test scale)
 * In-vessel composting
 * Mechanical biological treatment
 * Mechanical heat treatment
 * Plasma arc waste disposal (commercial demonstration scale)
 * Pyrolysis
 * Sewage treatment
 * Tunnel composting
 * UASB (applied to solid wastes)
 * Waste autoclave