Description

The construction and operation of a unit for the treatment of municipal solid waste constitutes an essential part of the integrated waste management. Particularly, for the Region of Western Makedonia , where an advanced waste management system operates (consisting of waste collection by the local authorities, 9 transfer stations and one sanitary landfill in a regional site, which operates since July 2005), the operation of a treatment unit, combined with an effective sorting at source program, may result in the implementation of a real integrated waste management system.
The main purpose of the system will be the maximization of waste utilization and the diversion of waste from landfilling. In this framework, the determination of the optimum waste treatment unit technology is a rather complicated exercise, which requires good knowledge of the basic concepts of waste management and the characteristics and parameters that are connected with each waste treatment technology.

The main objective of the project is to determine and describe in detail (technically and economically) the optimum waste treatment technology to be implemented in Western Makedonia Region.

The quantity of the generated waste is approx. 120.000 tons/year.

The tasks included:
- Task 1: Determination of Quantity – Composition – Properties of the solid waste entering the treatment unit
- Task 2: Techno-economic study for the alternative waste treatment scenarios
- Task 3: Detailed technical study for Scenario 0, which already has environmental permit