Candidatura Reserva da Biosfera - Santana Madeira Biosfera

where it is directed to appropriate treatment like incineration or landfill. As for selective
waste collection (glass, waste electrical and electronic equipment, used mineral oils,
green waste, batteries, used tires, scrap and waste batteries and accumulators)
deposited in Ecocentro these are sent for recycling.
The scope of activities of the Meia Serra’s Solid Waste Treatment Station (ETRS)
includes the incineration of solid urban waste to produce electricity, hospital and
slaughterhouses waste treatment, organic waste composting, waste sorting and routing
recycling and operation on landfills, and activities in the field of environmental education.
The ETRs is equipped with a municipal solid urban waste incineration (IIRSU) aimed
at energy recovery from municipal waste through a controlled and automated process,
which in addition to thermally treat the waste, enables the production of electricity.
Municipal Solid Waste composting setup (ICRSU) aims at the enhancement of
organic garden waste and food of plant origin, through the process of aerobic biological
degradation. In a simpler way, it is a natural process by which microorganisms transform
the organic matter (leaves, grass, debris or peel vegetables and fruits, etc.) in a humic
stabilized substance called compound, a kind of fertilizer with soil improver properties,
used in agriculture.
Installation of Hospital Waste and Slaughterhouses Incineration (IIRHM) aims to
treat hazardous hospital waste, coming from units providing human and animal care and
related research, in addition to products not intended for human consumption, including
those from the slaughterhouse, produced in Madeira
The IIRHM has two incineration lines with a capacity of 0.5 tons per hour, each
consisting of two combustion chambers where temperatures reach the 1100 º C. To this
treatment is associated the waste energy recovery, including through two heat
exchangers and turbo-generator group. The facility is equipped with two gas treatment
systems, similar to the IIRSU mutually independent. The by-products produced, including
slag and fly ash are directed to landfill (AS). In the case of ash, they are flushed prior to
placement into proper cells at AS.
The Landfill (AS) systems are the final disposal of waste not suited to treatment by
incineration and / or composting, as well as slag and ash (before flushing) resulting from
the incineration processes. Additionally, they serve to support the situations of downtime
and / or emergency treatment processes installed. The landfill currently operating in
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