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Environmental Benefits of MSW Processing and Materials Recovery
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- The biodegradable portion of the waste is completely diverted from landfill; therefore even the final diversion targets in the Landfill Directive can be met.
- The approach is consistent with Government targets for sustainable waste management practice.
- Manual handling of waste, such as would be required in a Materials Recycling Facility for co-mingled domestic recyclable materials, is avoided. This significantly improves the health and safety and environmental conditions for the plant operatives.
- A much higher rate of recycling is achievable from MSW with the ciVic® process rather than a conventional clean MRF.
- Organic waste, plastics, glass and metals are all extracted for recycling without incurring any additional transport emissions for segregated collection.
- There are a range of potential re-use applications for MSW derived soil improving material, many of which are, in themselves, environmentally beneficial, e.g. land remediation of spoil heaps, disused colliery sites etc.
- The composting waste is sanitised to a temperature time profile that kills pathogenic micro-organisms. A micro-processor controlled monitoring system provides a quality assurance step for every batch of compost that is produced, as well as allowing control of the processing regime.
- The ciVic® process operates on the principle of aerobic digestion and as a result the by-products are carbon dioxide and water. These are much less harmful to the environment than methane produced from anaerobic digestion, or the products of combustion produced by an incinerator.
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