Global warming is a focus of political interest and life-cycle assessment of waste
management systems reveals that energy recovery from municipal solid waste is a key …

Future limitations on the availability of selected resources stress the need for increased
material efficiency. In addition, in a climate-constrained world the impact of resource use on …

This article focuses on systematically highlighting the ways to optimize waste-to-energy
plants in terms of their energy efficiency as an indicator of the positive effect with regard to …

The increase in environmental and healthy concerns, combined with the possibility to exploit
waste as a valuable energy resource, has led to explore alternative methods for waste final …

This paper deals with a key issue related to municipal waste incineration, which is the
efficiency of energy recovery. A strong driver for improving the energy performances of …

This study gives a detailed overview over the German waste-to-energy sector in 2015. The
aim is to quantify the available treatment capacities and the energetic potential of waste in …

In order to reduce the ecological impact of resource exploitation, the EU calls for sustainable
options to increase the efficiency and productivity of the utilization of natural resources. This …

This two-part paper assesses four strategies for energy recovery from Municipal Solid Waste
(MSW) by dedicated Waste-To-Energy (WTE) plants. In strategy 1, the residue of Material …

Residual municipal solid waste (MSW) has an average lower heating value higher than 10
GJ/Mg in the EU, and can be recovered in modern Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plants, producing …

The possibilities for recovering energy from waste in Sweden around the year 2010 are
explored in this paper. To capture the issue from the perspectives of both the waste …