Incineration is the process of combusting the organic elements within waste streams. Industrially this process is also known as ‘thermal treatment’.

There are 2 main by-products to incineration. The first is inert bottom ash which is mostly formed by the in-organic elements of your waste stream, and the second is flue gas which providing the appropriate gas cleaning systems have been specified Is safe to let dispel into the atmosphere.

What is incineration?

In its most basic form, it is the destruction of something, especially waste material, by burning. Incineration is a thermo-decomposition process where the components present in the waste stream are ionized into harmless elements at a higher temperature in the presence of oxygen.

This process is one of safer scientific disposals of MSW being practised in various developed countries. This method is for volume reduction wherein 90 per cent of waste will be ionised and remaining becomes ash.

Burning stuff doesn’t make it entirely disappear, even once the ash is disposed of. Part of the mass of the original rubbish is converted into carbon dioxide and released into the atmosphere. But this pollution may beat the alternative. If the same volume of waste were tossed into landfills, eventual emissions of methane, a more powerful greenhouse gas, would be even worse for the atmosphere.