A new paradigm for waste management of organic materials

摘要

In recent years, the proliferation of municipal solid waste management facilities using composting, anaerobic digestion or the combination of both technologies as the main stages for the treatment of organic wastes has increased in several developed or developing countries. These countries relied on landfill as main waste management scenario not so many years ago. All such facilities (often referred as mechanical-biological treat-ment-MBT plants) require some mechanical pre-treatment to obtain recyclable materials and primarily organic waste, which is further treated using a biological technology. The resulting material is, in principle, a stabilized organic material with a variety of uses depending on its quality (e.g. agricultural or horticultural, restoration, etc.).