ABSTRACT
The quantity of wastes produced by anthropic activities all around the world each year is constantly increasing. An important part of these wastes is composed of hazardous materials, which have potentially great negative consequences on the environment and thus on human health. Organic-nature materials are currently forming the main fraction of all wastes generated worldwide (Mouhoun-Chouaki et al. 2019). The incineration method is, so far, the most commonly applied technique in organic waste elimination throughout the world, and is used more in developed countries than in developing countries (Silva et al. 2019; Zhang et al. 2016). The main reason for applying this method lies in the high rate of energy recovery from flue gases, whose heat is converted through steam turbine and generator into electrical power (Rand et al. 2000). However, these emissions contain many volatile and semi-volatile hazardous substances such as: dioxins (as 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro-p-dibenzo-dioxin), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, furans, nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2), HCl, SO2, HF (Buekens 2013; Jones et al. 2014) with numerous negative impacts on the environment.
