Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Processing

MSW recycling

During recent years, the importance of alternative energy sources has become increasingly apparent, with landfills reaching capacity.

MSW consists of everyday items like glass, plastics, metals, textiles, organics, and paper.

The material mix of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) varies per country, and in some cases even per community.

This mix contains a large portion of valuable products, compost and high calorific materials (refuse-derived fuel / RDF) that, once separated by mechanical treatment or degraded by biological treatment, offers a broad range of new resources.

RDF (refuse-derived fuel) exploits the energy content of the traditional household waste (MSW) to substitute traditional fuels, thus posing an alternative.

MSW recycling is attractive, both environmentally and economically.

Before the waste can be used as fuel, however, it must be sorted, and volume reduced into a homogenous fraction size.

MSW management

MSW management consists of 4 components:

• Disposal
• Composting
• Waste-to-energy
• Recycling

It is important to monitor MSW collection and record the information pertaining to collection time, area and other related data from a central location.

Municipal solid waste management covers the activities and actions that are required to manage MSW from collection to its final disposal.

Municipal Solid Waste recycling equipment

Municipal Solid Waste recycling systems employ a variety of different pieces of equipment to quickly and reliably sort materials, including the following:

• Automatic optical sorters
• Magnetic separators
• Eddy current separators
• Screening technology
• Conveyors
• Vibrating pan feeders
• Shredders
• Balers