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That's what Japan does. People typically keep three bins: trash, recyclables and burnable trash. The ash is often used for concrete and other industrial product
by redwall_hp 3y ago
That's what Japan does. People typically keep three bins: trash, recyclables and burnable trash. The ash is often used for concrete and other industrial products, and sometimes electricity is generated from the heat.
- Scoundreller 3y agoYou can also recover the metals, the ferrous ones anyway, because it doesn't get hot enough to burn them off. In theory, great for those objects that are metal stuff inside plastic stuff, so you recover something that you weren't going to (or didn't) recover with other methods. Interesting charts on Page 18 here: https://vbsa.ch/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Studie-Bunge-Internetversion.pdf https://vbsa.ch/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Studie-Bunge-Inte... Most metals end up in the bottom ash, but only half the lead and a small fraction of chromium... I thought the ash was hazmat though and using it in concrete was a bit experimental.