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ESRI report on incineration

  • 03-02-2010 8:31am
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    This report attempts to look dispassionately at the options and choices available for waste management.

    Ireland and Greece incinerate 0% of their municipal waste – incineration rates vary in other countries – Denmark 55%, Sweden 47%, Netherlands 34%, Luxembourg 38%, Belgium and France 33%, Germany 22%, Austria 34.

    (The report features a nice picture of the http://www.wienenergie.at incinerator in Vienna!)

    Per capita waste in Ireland varies by county from around 300 to nearly 600 kg.

    The externalities (ie pollution costs in “greenhouse gases” etc) are highest for landfill at around €130 per tonne (with 20% methane recapture), €36 per tonne for high efficiency incineration, and lowest for a cement kiln €21.

    The report assumes that Ireland will continue to use some landfill, at a price. Personally I'd have thought that the country should be heading for close to zero landfill - aside from disposing of treated incinerator ash in a properly lined facility. Landfill is an appalling waste of energy, potential polluter of water tables, etc.

    The document has 167 pages, and I have not read it fully yet. I am unclear therefore the extent to which they have taken on board the CHP (combined heat and power energy efficiency) issue, and the demand levels at cement kilns in Ireland for MBT processed waste and the end to end transportation issues of getting the waste from each house/building to MBT and on to the handful of cement kilns in Ireland.

    http://www.esri.ie/UserFiles/publications/20100202113832/SUSTAT030.pdf


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