List of solid waste treatment technologies
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
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)
- Landfarming
- In-vessel composting
- Mechanical biological treatment
- Mechanical heat treatment
- Plasma arc waste disposal (commercial demonstration scale)
- Pyrolysis
- Refuse-derived fuel
- Sewage treatment
- Tunnel composting
- UASB (applied to solid wastes)
- Waste autoclave
See also
- Bioethanol
- Biodiesel
- List of waste management companies
- List of waste water treatment technologies
- Pollution control
- Waste-to-energy
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