Proceedings

Why choose thermal?

• UK waste production

• Quantities available for thermal treatment

• Other materials for thermal conversion

• The question of recovery vs recycling

• Potential barriers to market

…an integrated waste management system should be designed on the integration of different types of treatment processes: recycling processes for material recovery and… biological treatments for appropriate streams, as well as thermal treatments for energy recovery… Lombardi L, Carnevale E & Corti A (2015). A review of technologies and performances of thermal treatment systems for energy recovery from waste.

Because of the planetary physics of the Earth, agrofuels produced each year will always be inadequate to make up for the decline of liquid transportation fuels from petroleum accumulated over 460 million years or more