Biorenewable Insights Municipal Solid Waste: A Report by Nexantthinking™ Published June 2016
Biorenewable Insights Municipal Solid Waste: A Report by Nexantthinking™ Published June 2016
Biorenewable Insights Municipal Solid Waste: A Report by Nexantthinking™ Published June 2016
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1 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................... 1
1.1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 1
1.2 COLLECTION AND SORTING ................................................................................. 1
1.2.1 Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) ............................................................ 1
1.3 WASTE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES ............................................................. 2
1.4 ECONOMICS ............................................................................................................ 3
1.4.1 Tipping Fees ................................................................................................. 3
1.4.2 Disposal Economics ..................................................................................... 3
1.5 REGIONAL CREATION AND DISPOSAL ................................................................ 5
1.5.1 Global Overview ........................................................................................... 5
2 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 8
2.1 DEFINITIONS ............................................................................................................ 8
2.2 MSW - AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE ...................................................................... 9
2.2.1 Environmental Drivers .................................................................................. 10
2.2.2 Economic Drivers ......................................................................................... 11
2.2.3 Policy Drivers ............................................................................................... 12
3 MSW Collection and Sorting Technologies ............................................................................ 16
3.1 COLLECTION METHODS ........................................................................................ 16
3.1.1 Collection of Source Separated Materials .................................................... 17
3.2 SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES ............................................................................. 19
3.2.1 Manual Separation ....................................................................................... 19
3.2.2 Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) ............................................................ 21
4 Waste Management Technologies ......................................................................................... 35
4.1 WASTE MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS ............................................................ 35
4.1.1 Waste Recovery – The Fourth ‘R’ ................................................................ 36
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