Italian waste processing plant in Buenos Aires

The new urban waste sorting and processing plant installed in Argentina by Tecsan is made by Amut-Ecotech. It comprises three lines with a capacity of 20 tons/hour, each of which required an overall investment of 100 million pesos (over 15 billion euro). The plant, the first of its kind to be installed in Argentina, is destined to process 20% of all the waste generated by the city of Buenos Aires. Indeed, of the 5000 tons of waste produced each day by the Argentinian capital, 1000 will be processed by the three lines making up the system.
The first stage in the operating process is the recovery of waste, which is divided into organic waste and dry waste-plastic-paper-cardboard. In this stage, the action of the Amut rotary  screen divides the dry waste (which is subsequently sorted further) from the organic waste (destined for composting), while special magnets separate ferrous from non-ferrous metals. After this, the dry waste is divided by type – plastic, paper, glass – and then packaged and marketed through the respective pipelines; the organic waste is fed into the plant's bioreactors for biological processing, while non-exploitable waste is sent to landfill. The air drawn in by the system is conveyed to a biofilter to be deodorised before being returned to the atmosphere.