Incinerator And Burning Waste

[El Cid]

I am sure its the same in all populated areas, people fly tipping waste. Many large cities have an incinerator, so do they encourage people to bring them wood and burnable waste?

It would seem like free energy. What happens to the waste when people hire a skip, I believe the waste is sorted, then what?

So councils collecting waste, its usefull, its just a matter of sorting it out, glass, wood etc.

[bassett one]

i used to work at a skip site,we put wood to oneside,brick ect in another bay,paper cardboard in a container for reycycling and scrap went to scrap centres,brass copper ect was weighed in and cups/plates ,vacs,tvs ect,ect were sent to auction ect,the balance went to land fill ,and i think thats how lots of skip firms work.

[Bargepole23]

6 hours ago, El Cid said:

I am sure its the same in all populated areas, people fly tipping waste. Many large cities have an incinerator, so do they encourage people to bring them wood and burnable waste?

It would seem like free energy. What happens to the waste when people hire a skip, I believe the waste is sorted, then what?

So councils collecting waste, its usefull, its just a matter of sorting it out, glass, wood etc.

More and more power stations burn waste wood and black bag waste.

[taxman]

Black bin waste can be sent to incinerators  to produce Energy from Waste. Companies like Veolia can recieve money for each tonne of waste they burn from the PRN system as well as from whoever they sell the energy to.

 

Energy from Waste PRNs are the lowest value. In 2019 the average PRN for a tonne of waste burnt by, for example Veolia, was 56p.

 

Other waste streams are sent to municiple refuse facilities where they are separated out into different materials. These can then be sold to reprocessors or exporters. They too can claim PRNs based on the tonnages either reprocessed or exported. The average price per tonne of plastic in 2019 was £279. 

 

Straight away you can see that their is a huge advantage in sorting materials and reprocessing/exporting rather than incinerating.  With the money sloshing around however it is inevitable criminlas will get involved and either PRNs will be claimed for waste reprocessing that never happened, or it will be claimed on material supposedly sent abroad for reprocessing but which ends up in landfil or dumped in Malaysia etc.