Treatment options

Putting our waste to work

So if we need to build new waste treatment facilities in Wales, what technologies are available to treat our food and non-recyclable waste?

With new technologies being introduced, and older methods being refined, it is easy to confuse what is involved in each process. These pages look at how the technologies work, and what benefits they can bring.

Feeding our future: food waste treatment

Wales throws away 410,000 tonnes of food and drink waste a year.  If buried in landfill it creates methane, a potent gas that is 23 times more harmful to the environment than carbon dioxide. 

Councils throughout Wales will be collecting food waste from your doorstep.  We need to use the best technology for treating it:

• Food Waste treatments 
  
  
• Non-Recyclable waste treatments