Provision of environmental safety during municipal solid waste recycling

Abstract

Technological process of compost production at Municipal Waste Recycling Plant, JSC (Togliatti) is examined. MWRP, JSC is operating according to aerobic biothermal composting technology, when municipal solid waste enters the natural biological cycle of matter and as a result undergoes the process of detoxification and turns into compost - valuable organic fertilizer. MWRP, JSC ensures full mechanization of technological processes, excluding any direct contact with toxic municipal solid waste. Compost produced at MWRP, JSC can be used as biofuel for greenhouses, as organic fertilizer in the spheres of agriculture, forestry, parks and gardens management and as a component of vegetative cover during landfill recultivation. The process of rapid biochamber composting of municipal solid waste does not pose any threat as far as the technology of environmental safety provision is concerned. In the process of municipal solid waste recycling non-compostable municipal waste is brought for disposal to the landfill and petroleum products derived from the waste are sent to be regenerated. Gaseous products of decomposition of organic matter found in municipal solid waste are taken out through vent headers into the gas outlet pipe and dissipate in the atmosphere.