2012 Volume 23 Issue 6 Pages 460-467
Treatment of disaster-related waste has advanced in the areas where the Great East Japan Earthquake struck just one year and seven months ago. JFE Engineering Corporation, a municipal waste incineration plant manufacturer, started its treatment plan using a temporary incinerator immediately following the disaster even when the local situation regarding how much damage there was had not yet become clear.
In order to properly process disaster waste that was even more complicated due to the influence of the tsunami that followed, it was clear that the process of pretreatments (i.e. shredding and sorting) was as important, if not more important, as thermal disposal during the treatment planning and actual processing.
In addition, due to tight landfill disposal restrictions, this task was very different from conventional disaster waste treatment, as maximization of recycling was required.
This paper reports on the eastern block of Miyagi. It gives various examples for thermal disposal of disaster-related waste, measures to be employed, the present operation situation, and also reproduction processing of incineration ash currently being planned.
