Recycling of solid domestic wastes
- Research assistant G.V. Plekhanov Saint Petersburg Mining Institute
Abstract
Various kinds of the waste produced by mankind, in particular solid domestic waste (SDW) are, on the one hand, the main environmental pollutants, and on the other, they frequently represent valuable products suitable for processing and recycling. There are two main ways of waste reclamation: burial ground disposal and processing. Burial of SDW at dumps should be considered as forced, up-to-the-minute solution to the problem, basically contradicting environmantal and resource requirements. Gradual transition from burial ground disposal to industrial processing is the basic tendency in decision of the SDW disposal problem in international practice.