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Thermal treatment can be regarded as either a pre-treatment of waste prior to final disposal, or as a means of valorising waste by recovering energy. It includes both the burning of mixed MSW in municipal incinerators and the burning of selected parts of the waste stream as a fuel. These different methods reflect the different objectives that thermal treatment can address. This chapter describes the various thermal treatment processes, and their use across Europe. It then attempts to quantify the environmental factors associated with thermal treatment, in terms of energy consumption and, emissions, and the economic costs. Finally the thermal treatment module of the LCI spreadsheet is presented and explained.
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White, P., Franke, M., Hindle, P. (1999). Thermal treatment. In: Integrated Solid Waste Management: A Lifecycle Inventory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2369-7_10
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