Energy and materials recovery from post-recycling wastes: WTE

Abstract One of the most misunderstood technologies in some parts world and widely adopted others is recovery energy materials by controlled combustion post-recycling wastes. This technology commonly called waste-to-energy, or simply WTE. After all possible efforts for recycling composting wastes, there remains a large fraction that either landfilled used as fuel WTE power plants also recover metals minerals. Several nations, e.g., Switzerland, Japan, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, have succeeded phasing out landfilling processing theãir municipal solid wastes (MSW) plants. paper reviews evolution importance twenty-first century, with special focus on world’s largest economies: EU, US, China. Graphical abstract