You 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

You 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.