It must reduce as much as possible the environmental impacts of waste management, including energy consumption, pollution of land, air, water and loss of amenity. It must operate at a cost acceptable to the community, which includes private citizens, businesses and government. Not Entailing Excessive Cost. The other concept is the BPEO- Best Practical Environmental Option. The diagram illustrates further the above concept.
Anaerobic digestion produces methane that can be burned to release energy.
However, one of the options available for the solid waste management is by thermal treatment. This project is a joint collaboration with Chain Cycle Sdn. Bhd., from whom we got a pilot plant, which is cited at MINT Tech Park. However, TOP has proven to be able to burn our MSW with success. The plant schematic diagram is as shown in Figure 3.0.