Direct & Indirect Piping System

What is Solid Waste

Solid waste means any garbage, refuse, sludge from

a wastewater treatment plant, water supply

treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and
other discarded materials including solid, liquid,
semi-solid, or contained gaseous material, resulting
from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural
operations, and from community activities, but does
not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic
sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation
return flows or industrial discharges that are point
sources subject to permit

Examples of Solid Waste

Waste Tires
Septage
Scrap Metal
Latex Paints
Furniture and Toys
Garbage
Appliances and Vehicles
Oil and Anti-freeze
Empty aerosol cans, paint
cans and compressed gas
cylinders
Construction and demolition
debris, asbestos

Components of Solid Waste Management

The municipal solid waste industry has four
Components: recycling, composting, land
filling,
and waste-to-energy via incineration. The
primary steps
are generation, collection, sorting and separation,
transfer, and disposal. Activities in which materials
are
identified as no longer being of value and are
either

Recycling
Recycling is a process to change waste materials into
new products to prevent waste of potentially useful
materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw
materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution
(from incineration) and water pollution
(from land filling) by reducing the need for
"conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse
gas
emissions as compared to plastic production.

Composting
Composting is organic matter that has
been decomposed and recycled as a fertilizer and soil
amendment. Compost is a key ingredient in organic
farming. At the simplest level, the process of
composting
simply requires making a heap of wetted organic
matter
known as green waste (leaves, food waste) and
waiting
for the materials to break down into humus after a
period of weeks or months.

Landfill
A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump,
Rubbish dump or dumping ground) is a site
for the disposal of waste materials by burial
and is the oldest form of waste treatment.
Historically, landfills have been the
most common method of organized waste
disposal andremain so in many places around
the world.

Waste-to-energy
Waste-to-energy or energy-from-waste is
the process of generating energy in the form
of electricity and/or heat from the incineration
of waste. WtE is a form of energy recovery. Most
WtE processesproduce electricity and/or heat
directly throughcombustion, or produce a
combustible fuel commodity, such as methane,
methanol, ethanol or synthetic fuels.