Market Research on Refused Derived Fuel RDF production in the Republic of Albania

This Market Research on quality and quantity of waste and potentials of establishment of RDF production in the Republic of Albania provides a thorough screening with regard to the refused urban and industrial waste have for further coprocessing vis a vi the actual treatment which consists on landfilling. On a brief statement on the problem covered, it is important to underline that similar research was conducted in North Macedonia and Serbia whereas the current status converges on the fact that waste management is one of the main pollution sources in urban, rural and coastal areas. In Albania aside of littering there is a notable lack of local administrative capacities to efficiently provide a service that meets hygienic-sanitary standards nevertheless the absence of final treatment infrastructure and lack of segregation practices combined with incineration practices presented during the last years to reduce the volume of waste have deteriorated further more the concept of making this a profitable process. Through this market research and further the feasibility study, we shall provide an environmental and economical feasible option for that waste typologies containing thermal capacity and that are not subject to reuse-recycle shall be further recovered and treated, offering thus a final product in the form of Alternative Fuel. A product that can be co-processed by Cement Industry to extract their thermal input and further reuse the ashes as part of the clinker for the cement. Waste to Energy is a rather new concept but during the last decades it gained a lot of terrain both among scholars and cement industry whom have past through the piloting phase and now aiming to subsidy more than 25% of fossil fuel yearly consumption with alternative fuel. First given the feasible economical perspective alongside with the EU Green Deal obligation to reduce their carbon emission until becoming carbon neutral by 2050.