Eco+Eco plant treats residual municipal solid waste (MSW) generated by approximately 840,000 inhabitants of Venice Province and up to 37 million tourists per year and converts it into Solid Recovered Fuels (SRF) with high calorific value and high a biomass content (around 60% in terms of carbon) that is used to generate electrical power in situ or sold to other plants as fuel. The first step of the process is the sorting of recyclable material such as ferrous and non-ferrous metals(7,700 ton/year) or inert aggregates (i.e., gravel, sand, glass, and ceramics). Starting from 2026, a second co-incineration line will be operating and all the SRF will be used within the plant. The SRF plant is currently being revamped and it is expected that by the end of 2024 it will be able to sort out almost 6,000 t/year of plastics from the income MSW, reduce fossil fuel consumption due to automatization and material transport by trucks within and outside the plant. The upgrading will also decrease electrical auto-consumption and will increase the amount of sorted recyclable material from residual MSW, which usually is landfilled, decreasing CO2 emission related to either combustion of fossil-plastics or internal and external transport of SRF. The total saved emission of CO2 would be from 42,000 to 64,000 ton/year if all the sorted plastic will be recycled, or a more reliable amount ranging from 29,000 to 45,000 ton/year if only 70% of the sorted plastics isrecycled. Energy recovery from SRF rather than the untreated unsorted MSW, results in a fuel which is 30% less in weight than the untreated residual MSW, with higher calorific value and more homogeneous characteristics thus providing fully oxidized ashes that can be used in construction industry and which make incineration management and flue gas treatment easier and healthier
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