title: Report: waste refinery in the municipality of Borås.
abstract: This paper briefly describes waste treatment trends in Sweden and describes an example of state-of-the-art treatment in a local integrated waste treatment system (Borås). The focus is on treatment of household waste, to illustrate what can be done to establish a sustainable waste treatment system with high recovery of materials and energy. The various processes have resulted in a low amount of landfilled household waste, and high proportions of recovered energy and materials. Heat, electricity, vehicle fuel and fertilizers, metals and construction materials are recovered from the local waste in Borås, with less than 4% of domestic waste being sent to landfill.
authors.affiliation: Technical Research Institute of Sweden (SP), Borås, Sweden. andreas.johansson@sp.se
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Johansson
authors.forename: Evalena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Blomqvist
authors.forename: Annika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ekvall
authors.forename: Lennart
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gustavsson
authors.forename: Claes
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tullin
authors.forename: Bengt-Ake
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Andersson
authors.forename: Mattias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bisaillon
authors.forename: Tisse
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jarlsvik
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Assarsson
authors.forename: Gunnar
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Peters
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004782:Environmental Health; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013548:Sweden; D013997:Time Factors; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods*; D014866:Waste Products / Q000145:classification
chemical_list: D014866:Waste Products