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Europe and North America will continue to
have good development potential. Other re-
gions such as the member states of the Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC), the Southeast
Asia Association (ASEAN), or China could
be very important markets. We believe that
robust and tested technologies based on
mass combustion grids will
continue to play a relevant role
in these systems, although
the development of the so-
called Advanced Conversion
Technologies (ACTs) – which,
through innovative processes
such as gasification, pyrolysis,
or plasma produce fuel, heat
or electricity with a high de-
gree of energy production.
WTE is contributing to enhancing the sus-
tainability of waste treatment, particularly by
generating renewable energy that reduces
the dependency on fossil fuels. This will have
a very positive impact on our surroundings
and in the future of our ecosystems. For us,
waste to energy is not an exclusive or sin-
gle-use technology. The trend nowadays is
to maximise recovery and recycling of waste
reducing as much as possible the negative
impact on the environment, one of the de-
fined objectives of the European Union for
2020. Because of this, the major projects
currently under study contemplate Com-
prehensive Waste Treatment and Recycling
Complexes where diverse flows of mate-
rials can be processed and which combine
several systems for their treatment, one of
which is waste to energy.
From left to right: Felipe Urbano de Saleta, manager of Development at FCC’s Environment Division. Panel of CEOs with Paul
Taylor, CEO of FCC Environment UK, the centre.