抄録
Due to the success of economic growth, population growth and rapid development in industry, Korea has faced many social and economic changes. As a result, the amount of waste generated has increased rapidly, the nature and types are very diverse season, in some areas, included are the harmful substances to the humanbody, such as heavy metals, persistent substance. Accordingly the waste disposal becomes one of biggest environmental problems. Also, continuance of higher oil price bring limitable usage of fossil fuels in the world. Thus it is imperative to find new energy supply. In the past, Korea government policy was toward resource consuming but now a day’s policy was turned into zero waste and resource recycling society. As part of this policy, Korea government implements "Comprehensive Plan for Waste-to-Energy" and "a waste of resources and action plans for biomass energy measures". The purpose of these policies is reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by energy source recycling and creation of a sustainable society. Based on the 2011’s national household waste generation, 48,934 ton / day, 42.7% of which 20,898 ton / day was incinerated. This process made an increase of about 3% over the previous year, and incineration rate is increasing year by year.
