List of solid waste treatment technologies

The article contains a list of different forms of solid waste treatment technologies and facilities employed in waste management infrastructure.

Waste handling facilities

 * Civic amenity site (CA site)
 * Transfer station

Established waste treatment technologies

 * Incineration
 * Landfill
 * Recycling
 * Specific to organic waste:
 * Anaerobic digestion
 * Composting
 * Windrow composting

Alternative waste treatment technologies
In the UK some of these are sometimes termed advanced waste treatment technologies
 * Biodrying
 * Gasification
 * Plasma gasification: Gasification assisted by plasma torches
 * Hydrothermal carbonization
 * Hydrothermal liquefaction
 * Mechanical biological treatment (sorting into selected fractions)
 * Refuse-derived fuel
 * Mechanical heat treatment
 * Molten salt oxidation
 * Pyrolysis
 * UASB (applied to solid wastes)
 * Waste autoclave
 * Specific to organic waste:
 * Bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels
 * In-vessel composting
 * Landfarming
 * Sewage treatment
 * Tunnel composting