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Processes for

Waste-to-Fuel generation

The waste-to-chemicals process perfectly represents a ready-to-
business technology and an economically feasible solution which
is able to promote circularity also in the hydrogen production
sector

Giacomo Rispoli, CEO
Alessia Borgogna, Business Development Waste-to-Chemical Analyst
MyRechemical, a subsidiary of NextChem (MAIRE Group)

ne of the main reasons behind the
climate change issue is the disparity
between the characteristic time of
anthropic carbon consumption and
the natural carbon sequestration
Opaths. This unbalanced condition
must be rebalanced. One of the most rational paths to
success for this aim is by promoting circularity in fuel
and chemical production. The waste to chemical
process perfectly represents a ready-to-business
technology and an economically feasible solution which
is able to promote circularity also in the hydrogen Figure 1. Global waste production projection.
production sector. Generally, waste to chemical (Reference:What a waste. World Data Bank. Trends in Solid Waste
technology is able to produce fuel with a lower carbon Management (worldbank.org)
footprint by exploiting a carbon and hydrogen source
which is commonly disposed of: waste. The proposed expected growth of the Gross Domestic Product of the
technology is able to convert the carbon and hydrogen lower and middle countries implies a much more
contained in those wastes which are the most difficult pronounced growth of waste production. By 2050,
to be recovered or recycled: - Refuse Derived Fuel annual global waste production is expected to be 3.4
(RDF), which comes from the mechanical and biological billion, as depicted in the graph below.
treatments of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and -
Plasmix, which is the residual fraction of the recycling “A healthy approach to waste
treatment of sorted plastic (about 40% in volume). management is the one which follows
the so-called waste hierarchy; reduce;
reuse; recycle; recover energy;
Core dispose

Waste management is one of the most impelling issues
of our society. By 2050, the population is expected to A healthy approach to waste management is the one
grow. Along with the population, waste will have the which follows the so-called waste hierarchy; reduce;
same increase. Not only proportionally, since the reuse; recycle; recover energy; dispose.

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