A waste recycling plant is a facility that receives waste and recyclable material from outside the plant, then processes the material. The processed material is then sent to outside buyers to be reused in the manufacturing of new products. The waste recycling process starts with receiving waste.
Material is collected from a variety of sources including landfills, as well as directly from customers. The waste is delivered to the plant through trucks, rail cars, barge, and other means.
Waste is taken to a location inside the plant where it is received by a scrapping machine. The waste is then inspected, sorted, and baled before it is taken to a storage area. Inside the storage area, the waste sits while the sorting and baling are processed.
Recycling companies generally use balers to bundle waste into a large bale. The bales are hauled to a central storage area where they wait until it is time to be processed.
Solid Waste Management
The annual output of solid waste from cities is 4 billion tons. It includes garbage, industrial wastes and sewage. The solid waste produced each day by a city the size of long beach is about 500 tons.
It is transported to the city incinerator, where it is burned to heat water, which is in turn used to generate electricity. Incineration is a process through which solid waste is heated in the presence of oxygen. This process kills all the harmful microorganisms in the waste.
But it has an adverse effect on the atmosphere and so the state of California has banned the incineration of waste and is forcing the cities to produce reusable energy from solid waste.
In new jersey, there is a plant where solid waste is turned into fuel. It is called waste to energy plant. In this plant, solid waste is shredded, pulverized and then mixed with water.
Organic Waste
The solution is to make use of the organic waste that is produced by the residents in the Long Beach community. The organic waste is produced by the people, the institutions, and the industries in the Long Beach community.
The organic waste is produced by the people, restaurants, hotel kitchen, schools, and even the hospitals. If you harvest the organic waste from the community, you can create compost and you can use this compost as fertilizer. You can actually turn trash into a gold mine if you make use of the organic waste properly.
Waste To Energy
Waste to energy (or trash-to-energy) is a process of producing energy in the form of electricity or heat from the primary treatment of waste. The combustion of waste for the conversion of the chemical components into heat, steam or electricity is an example of energy recovery from waste.
The process of incineration and high-temperature anaerobic digestion are also known as waste-to-energy and in 2010, these processes produced 2.4% of the world’s electricity.
Incineration of waste is the most commonly used method in the world, with as much as 20% of all electricity produced coming from the incineration of waste.
Worldwide, about 80% of this energy recovery happens via incineration, and about 80% of the waste recovered via incineration is landfilled. Most of the 20% not incinerated is used in the form of recycled materials.