How can you ensure waste-to-energy systems are circular economy compatible?

When you have a bunch of waste, the classification and selection and categorization of the waste is the key to optimize the valorization process. Because there are a lot of burnable waste that has more value like their own material properties than a fuel. By this reason burn waste is only a way to consider circularity, the easy one, because fuel is by it self a by-product not a circular vehicle, because burn materials is not the most valuable procedure. Chemical properties of the waste are better than fuel value. And in this chapter, the biomass also must be considered more value like Carbon reservoir than a fuel, because is more interesting for the market the Carbon right than the energy potential value

Conduct comprehensive lifecycle assessments to evaluate the environmental and economic impacts of waste-to-energy systems throughout their lifecycle. This helps identify opportunities for improvement and ensures that the systems align with circular economy principles. Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards governing waste management, energy production, and environmental protection. This includes obtaining permits, adhering to emission limits, and implementing best practices for waste handling and disposal. By incorporating these principles into the design, operation, and management of waste-to-energy systems, it is possible to create solutions that generate energy, moreover, they also contribute to the circular economy.

Establishing a circular economy requires practical, realisable steps: Rethink product design: develop products from the outset so that they are easy to recycle at the end of their life. Use modular designs and standardised components to promote reusability. Introduce take-back and recycling programmes: Implement systems to take back products at the end of their useful life. Innovative business models: encourage use rather than ownership, such as leasing models for products. Utilise data: Rely on technology to monitor and optimise product lifecycles. By analysing usage data, you can extend their lifespan.

Today, "waste to energy" in an oven to produce steam to move a turbine, has a phenomenal competitor in the Circular Economy around avoid GHG, the biomass pyrolizer, that also produces heat, but preserves around a 20% of the biomass carbon that is the easier procedure to remove Carbon, a strong CDR procedure. The waste or biomass burners tell us that they can recapture CO2 of the from the emitted gases in a BECCS strategy and became a real CO2 reducer, with a higher added value, because you obtain "negative GEI emissions", with higher valued CO2 Rights if the gas is finally stored in a geological or mineral process. Then in a circular "waste to energy" process, better than energy efficiency is CO2 recapture