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Sorted MSW (municipal solid waste) Briquettes

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) consists of a wide variety of materials including paper, plastics, metals and glass.  The ground material shown above was sorted to remove all recyclable plastics and ferrous metals, leaving only paper, non-recyclable plastics, aluminum and bits of glass.  This material is mostly what fills landfills across the world, but if it is ground to the consistency above it can be pressed into the briquettes that you see above to the right.  Such briquettes are not suitable for a residential market but can be burned cleanly and safely in special high temperature gassifiers for heat or even electricity generation.  In such a system, even the aluminum burns, and the glass melts and forms clinkers in the ash which can then be recovered and recycled, leaving no waste or undue pollution.  Such a scenario is far better than filling landfills.  "Wood" dies are used for briquetting Sorted MSW in the Slugger system.

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