Incineration : an unavoidable option in waste management

Within the cleanliness policy for urban areas, incineration, CNIM's principal activity, offers essential advantages.

After the extraction of the effectively retrievable part of household waste in the form of materials and compost, approximately 70 to 85 % of the initial tonnage is left, with the only options left being dumping or thermal processing: the incineration option enables this sorted waste to be recycled in the form of energy.

Incineration effectively enables the energy contained in the waste residues to be recovered: one ton of household waste contains the equivalent of two hundred litres of crude oil.

Furthermore, this technology provides an excellent way to recover ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

With regard to hygiene, incineration offers the incomparable advantage of eliminating pathogenic germs. It is used for biologically contaminated waste.

Concerning pollution, incineration enables contaminants contained in waste to be concentrated, thus facilitating their further treatment and avoiding their dissemination.

It contributes very significantly to reducing greenhouse-effect gases.

Regarding the processing of other types of waste, CNIM has constructed numerous plants for biomass energy recovery capable of burning the most diverse types of organic fuels, such as bagasse, wood residues, peanut and hazelnut shells, sunflower and cotton seed husks, olive residues, coffee dregs, etc. This green energy from biomass is in full development, in Europe as well as in emerging countries, and CNIM actively participates in its expansion.

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