What is a Mechanical Biological Treatment Plant (MBT)?
Watch our video – also available on YouTube.com. We talk you through a flow chart – don’t expect a lot of pretty pictures! Most people are also able to grasp the concept of waste transfer stations. The name says it all, as it is simply where the small loads from the refuse trucks are made up into large “bulk” loads for cost effective transport to the landfill. But, beyond that there is little knowledge of MBT. However, it is one of the waste management technologies which are being increasingly used by the local authority waste disposal contractors to avoid having to ship waste (especially organic waste) out to landfills. There could be quite a lot of them around within the next 10 to 15 years. These Mechanical Biological Treatment Plants are beginning to be built in the UK. Also, here are quite a number in the EU states already, and the Germans and the Austrians are the leaders in introducing them. In Germany there are about 50 MBT plants built and operating (January 2008), and clearly
