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Municipal Solid Waste

The Human Wasteland

Today the conflict between the economy and ecology has become more acute. Hence, the term sustainable has come to mean what the market and not the earth can bear. Wealthier and more developed nations will not easily compromise on their growth pattern. While they praise their wealth to protect the environment, large tracks of the earth are laid to waste by their industries

IIT team adopts HTC process to manage mixed solid waste

The process’ novelty lies in the use of water for the reaction; thus the moisture in the MSW gets used during the recycling process without requiring any removal of moisture from segregated wet waste or high energy intake.