MSW treatment with thermolysis as the ultimate step.

["Emmanuel de Broux" <EMM_DE_BROUX@msn.com>]

John Thomas wrote:

>Emmanual, I have read your questions, responses, and further questions 
>that have been posted on the dioxin mail list.  I am responding to you 
>directly, and I am also posting a copy to the dioxin list.  I hope you 
>don't mind.
>
>I think that everyone is taking this debate from the wrong perspective. 

>From Belgium came this answer :

Dear John,

I agree fully with you. In fact, I should give you a much more elaborate 
answer. Our group af activists count about 50 people divided in small groups, 
each group tackling a specific aspect of MSW treatment, laws, European 
directives, techniques, etc. I should give you details about the tremendous 
amount of data these people have put together. That would be pretty longish.

My part of that job was mainly to find information on a coordinated treatment 
based, after a prior recycling of whatever waste can be readily recycled, 
composted or biomethanised, on the grinding-separation of the refuses, and 
only then on the thermolysis treatment of what's left of organics, if 
anything. For the moment, old TV sets, baby diapers and similar could have to 
go through that three-steps process.

I hope these lines will cast some light on what we're doing here in Belgium.

Belgians generate about 1 kg (2 pounds) of thrash per day. This quantity is 
increasing year by year. But we're still far from the quantities you know in 
the States.

Mentalities are different also. We're many more by the square mile than in the 
States. Maybe this explains that. I don't know.

Besides all this, I just found out that the German giant Siemens sells 
incinerators they call -recycling through thermolysis-. Today, anything 
goes...

If anything I get about thermolysis is worth communicating, I'll post in on 
this server, promised :-) ! Best regards.