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
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
- * Refuse-derived fuel
- Mechanical heat treatment
- Molten salt oxidation
- Pyrolysis
- UASB
- Waste autoclave
- Specific to organic waste:
- * Bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels
- * In-vessel composting
- * Landfarming
- * Sewage treatment
- * Tunnel composting