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The article contains a list of different forms of solid waste treatment technologies and facilities employed in waste management infrastructure.

Waste handling facilities

• Civic amenity site (CA site)
• Transfer station

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 (sorting into selected fractions)
  • Refuse-derived fuel
• Mechanical heat treatment
• Molten salt oxidation
• Pyrolysis
• UASB (applied to solid wastes)
• Waste autoclave
• Specific to organic waste:
  • Bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels
  • In-vessel composting
  • Landfarming
  • Sewage treatment
  • Tunnel composting

See also

• Bioethanol
• Biodiesel
• List of waste management companies
• List of wastewater treatment technologies
• Pollution control
• Waste-to-energy
• Burn pit

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