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.

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Waste handling facilities

• Civic amenity site (CA Site)
• Transfer station

Established waste treatment technologies

• Composting
• Incineration
• Landfill
• Windrow composting

Advanced waste treatment technologies

Also called alternative waste treatment technologies

• Anaerobic digestion
• Alcohol/ethanol production
  • Bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels (pilot scale)
• Biodrying
• Gasification
• In-vessel composting
• Mechanical biological treatment
• Mechanical heat treatment
• Plasma arc waste disposal (pilot scale)
• Pyrolysis
• Recycling
• Sewage treatment
• Tunnel composting
• UASB (applied to solid wastes)
• Waste autoclave
• Waste-to-energy

See also

• Bioethanol
• Biodiesel
• List of waste management companies
• List of waste water treatment technologies
• Pollution control