MSW contamination – what causes the most of headaches

  • Natalia Bourenane

    Organizer
    2 March 2026 at 1:04 pm

    @LauraCarolina I feel like this is your expertise! Can you provide some comments?

  • Dave

    Member
    2 March 2026 at 1:37 pm

    In our experience we see different issues depending on the location. Could be 1) surprising amounts of glass or plastics, 2) paper that creates interesting mixing issues in wet AD, depending on local recycling initiatives, and 3) leaf and grass clippings waste that blinds up the screens on various types of depack units.

  • Tejas

    Member
    3 March 2026 at 6:57 am

    Hi Jessica,

    MSW is most challenging and yet most useful feedstock for digestion.

    Since it is widely and round the year available. Most challenging part it to get segregated organics and it always comes with mixed.

    Operation headache is the separation of inorganic and organic. Still, there are always impurities left after segregation. I believe to use Arciplug Dry Plug Flow reactor which can take up to 20% impurities without compromising biology of digester and no sedimentation.

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