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Fact sheets

1: Landfill -why do we need more facilities to treat our rubbish?

This fact sheet explains why we cannot continue to send our rubbish to landfill.

2: What's in my Rubbish?

This fact sheet focuses on the different types of rubbish we throw away, what it can be reused as or recycled into and whether it contains hazardous components that will need to be treated in a special way.

3: Waste Planning in Wales

This fact sheet focuses on Waste Planning in Wales – specifically planning policy, regional working and decision making.

4: Biological Treatments

These treatments deal with the biological part of your rubbish; which is the garden waste and kitchen waste (also known as organic or biodegradable waste). The fact sheet details three different approaches to composting and a treatment called anaerobic digestion.

5: Mechanical Biological and Mechanical Heat Treatment (MBT & MHT)

These treatments separate your mixed rubbish or ‘residual’ waste, after household recycling has taken place. The waste is split into the biological parts (kitchen and garden waste) and the remaining parts (plastics, cans, glass etc.) before being treated.

6: Thermal Treatments 

The following thermal (heat) treatments are described: Energy from waste (EfW), Incineration and Combined Heat and Power (CHP), Advanced Thermal Treatments, Pyrolysis and Gasification

7: Materials Recovery Facilities and Transfer Stations 

This fact sheet focuses on materials recovery facilities or MRFs and transfer stations.