Economic and environmental comparison between two scenarios of waste management: MBT vs thermal treatment

D. Panepinto, G.A. Blengini and G. Genon

Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2015, vol. 97, issue C, 16-23

Abstract: The paper examines, under specific local situation of planning of innovative solutions for municipal solid waste treatment, the results obtained from a technical, economic and environmental comparison between two different scenarios for waste management: the first scenario foresees the gasification of the residual waste after separate collection and the energetic utilization of the produced syngas, while the second one is based on a mechanical separation of the residual waste in three fluxes: a combustible flux to be utilized, after quality improvement, as RDF (residue derived fuel), a wet organic flux to be sent to anaerobic digestion and a residual essentially mineral flux. For both the scenarios different levels of separate collection were considered.

Keywords: Municipal solid waste management; Thermal treatment; Mechanical biological treatment; Life cycle assessment; Economic evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2015.02.002

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