subject: Material Recovery Facilities- The Best Concept for Waste Management [print this page] Material Recovery Facilities- The Best Concept for Waste Management
Common technologies that are used for treating waste as a process of proper waste management has evolved into more efficient mechanisms. Current innovations significantly aim to lessen the amount of harmful pollutants that we disperse into the atmosphere when treating waste. The facilitation of material recovery facilities (MRF) enhance it capability for cutting down harmful green house gas emissions in the atmosphere. It disperses fewer pollutants serving a long term battle against the causes of climate change.
Reuse, reduce and recycle is considered as one of the most effective methods of waste management techniques in sanitary landfills. This process segregates and sanitizes waste to be used back into its perspective industry. Of course as expected not all of the trash that we dump into these sites could be recycled. Almost 78% of waste that is left from this sites as directed to incineration plants for energy recovery methods however; these plants deploy massive amounts of hazardous gases that depletes our ozone layer causing destructive effects that led to climate change.
The material recovery facilities (MRF) apply the hierarchy of waste management methods for the generation of clean and efficient energy production. It uses the initial process of segregating, screening, recycling and treating waste through the RDF process. Waste is housed in these facilities instead of being directed into various sanitary landfills. It is immediately placed in the conveyor belt for segregation and screening; where waste that could be recycled is separated from those that contain high calorific value for waste to energy conversion. Here waste is also crushed into smaller pieces that would be fed into the thermal combustion for treatment and energy conversion.
The systems used in a material recovery facility have improved its filtration technique that reduces the emissions of waste to energy conversion. It applies a one of a kind process that overcomes the risk of dispersing pollutants into the atmosphere. Since these facilities utilize waste as its main feedstock for energy conversion, it does not require the use of raw materials from our natural resources. It is considered as one of the best concepts of waste management for endowing eco-friendly benefits to our environment.
