Report: waste refinery in the municipality of Borås.
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.
Johansson
Andreas
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Technical Research Institute of Sweden (SP), Borås, Sweden. andreas.johansson@sp.se
Blomqvist
Evalena
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Ekvall
Annika
A
Gustavsson
Lennart
L
Tullin
Claes
C
Andersson
Bengt-Ake
BA
Bisaillon
Mattias
M
Jarlsvik
Tisse
T
Assarsson
Anders
A
Peters
Gunnar
G
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
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