We shall add to this page references and links to information on Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) (New Waste Technologies).

For a start, we begin with the important reference which provided the starting point for Mechanical Biological Treatment in the UK.

This report which first promoted MBT as we know it today, was the UK Government's Strategy Unit Report, "Waste Not, Want Not" (November 2002). Click here to view the Annex G: Treatment and Disposal of Residual Waste.

The UK Government DTi Renewable Energy Web Site contains a number of useful reports, in particular:

TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF ENERGY CONVERSION TECHNOLOGIES FOR MSW - .pdf file (July 2007 - no longer avaiable here)

Figure 9, from this report, below shows the escalating requirement for Biological Municipal Waste (BMW) Diversion very graphically, assuming that there will be continued growth in total BMW.