title: Landfill alternative offers powerful case.
abstract: With many of Europe's landfill sites now close to capacity, and the EU Landfill Directive requiring that, by 2020, the amount of waste sent to landfill should be just 35% of the volume similarly disposed of in 1995, pressure is mounting to find environmentally acceptable waste disposal alternatives. At a recent IHEEM waste seminar, Gary Connelly, a technical consultant at environmental technology consultancy the Cameron Corporation, described a technology which he explained can effectively convert 85% of the European Waste Catalogue of materials into an inert residue, is "cleaner and cheaper" than incineration, and can generate both electricity an waste heat. As HEJ editor Jonathan Baillie reports, a key target market is healthcare facilities.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baillie
mesh_terms: D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D033161:Government Regulation; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D006113:United Kingdom