subject: Material Recovery Facilities Cleaning up the Environment [print this page] Material Recovery Facilities Cleaning up the Environment
The generation of piles of garbage is alarmingly increasing each year; as well as the pollution that it brings to the environment and our health. The current situation brings inconvenient outcomes to the global environment by contaminating water, air and land resources. Sanitary landfills are becoming scarcer and scarcer while waste builds up in piles. Larger communities are now shifting to material recovery facilities to get rid of the waste that endows hazardous effects ad uses it as a source for renewable energy generation.
The proper disposal of waste may vary in different methods that are applied to rubbish that is deployed in sanitary landfills. A proposal towards generating renewable energy sources using the material recovery facility aims to lessen waste and pollution. It retrieves valuable materials that could be process and converted and created into a cleaner source of power. The concept that is proposed by these facilities is plain and simple yet very unique. Instead of transporting waste into sanitary landfills; it will be directed to a material recovery facility (MRF facility) to be treated into a cleaner source of energy.
Waste materials that are brought in material recovery facilities are placed in a conveyor belt where it is screened. Through this process waste that could be reused and recycled back in the market are separated from the ones that will be used for energy retrieval conversion. This process also allows waste to be crushed into smaller pieces before it is fed to a combustion chamber for chemical decomposition. Once the initial process is done, waste that pertaining high calorific value is treated through a unique process for waste to energy conversion.
Through the methods used for energy recovery that is derived from waste, we could lessen approximately 140 million barrels of oil. Imagine that through material recovery facilities we have the ability to eliminate a huge amount of waste while cutting a significant amount of pollution that causes hazardous effect of climate change. Valuable materials are reduced by recycling waste and utilizing it back into the system. It allows us to preserve our natural resource and preventing the degradation of the environments resources.
The energy that is produce from waste in material recovery facilities is proven to be a renewable energy source. It diminishes our reliance to fossil fuel and coal generated electricity that pollutes the environment by dispersing large amounts of green house gases into the atmosphere. Resource recovery facilities will sooner be replacing landfill facilities in various cities throughout the world.
