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Combustion of waste has always been an important waste-disposal option. The need to control that combustion, to control its emissions and permit it to occur in close proximity to other human activity, led to the construction of incinerators. It was difficult for engineers to watch all that energy going to waste; energy recovery from waste was thus born. Today, such facilities are frequently known as WTEFs, for waste-to-energy facilities. Processing waste to recover materials still left a residue stream. Alternatively, one could process waste to enhance its fuel properties, generating a reject stream from which salable materials might be recovered. The combustible product was called refuse-derived fuel, and the whole process, resource recovery. Even with the recovery of all non-organic materials, and the digestion of the remaining organic materials, it is not inconceivable that many dense urban areas would be overwhelmed by compost were all the energy in the organic component of waste to be recovered by its use as an aid to plant growth. Combustion of waste will likely always be a necessary component of waste control.
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Stessel, R.I. (1996). Energy Recovery. In: Recycling and Resource Recovery Engineering. Environmental Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80219-5_4
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