Waste to Energy

Waste to Energy is an energy recovery process that utilizes waste conversion technologies to
generate heat and electricity from non-reusable and non-recyclable waste materials. It excels the
other waste management (WM) strategies (e.g., reusing and recycling) as it can be used to meet the
increasing energy demands and to reduce the dependency on energy imports and natural resources,
in addition to reducing the waste amount for disposal.

(Converting plastic waste to energy certain makes sense from a chemical perspective, given plastics
come from the same origin as fossil fuels. We’ve already looked at the two main techniques
involved: pyrolysis, where plastic is heated in the absence of oxygen, and gasification, where air or
steam heats the waste, creating gases that either produce petrol or diesel, or are burned to generate
electricity.)

When we burn waste materials, heating panels convert heat into electricity. Red LED bulb starts
glowing to show electricity. After that circuit takes electricity and gives to battery for battery
Charging. There is a Heat sensor placed inside the burning box, which senses the heat from
combustion of wastes and turns on the LED bulb (Because Heat sensor works as an on/off switch).

Impact on environment:
(The management of waste plastics is a major environmental issue. Several
strategies have been adopted for the handling of plastic waste which includes
recycling, depositing in landfill, incineration, microbial degradation and
conversion into useful materials. Recycling of plastic is a costly and tedious
practice because of the collection, sorting and processing of waste plastics,
beside the low quality of the recycled goods limits their wide application. Land
filling occupies productive land and renders it unfit for other applications.
Incineration and pyrolytic conversion of waste plastic results in the emission of
hazardous atmospheric pollutants including the polyaromatic hydrocarbons,
CO2 (a greenhouse gas) and persistent organic pollutants like dioxins.)