[ METHODS #5: INCINERATION ]

Solid waste incineration is a traditional method in waste disposal. With the development of science, heat-using technology is improved more and more these days with many outstanding advantages:

-Incineration process is mostly automatic to prevent the exposition of humans with toxic waste.

-Incineration furnace can be installed everywhere and with different ranges of capacity.

-Deal with almost every type of infectious bacteria, especially hospital and industrial waste.

-Heat from the process can be reused for boilers, furnaces and other heat and electricity industry.

With all these benefits, incineration is applied worldwide in: Japan, Germany, Sweden… However, the method in Vietnam remains many drawbacks:

-High costs for furnaces and generating process.

-Lack of profession human resources for operating furnaces.

-The air-clarification system cannot fully deal with air pollution.

Source: Stepro, Moitruongxanhvn .