Solid waste incineration accounts for a growing proportion of waste disposal in both developed and
developing countries, therefore it is important to constrain emissions of greenhouse gases from these
facilities. At five Swiss waste incineration facilities with grate firing, emission factors for N2O and CH4
were determined based on measurements of representative flue gas samples, which were collected in
Tedlar bags over a one year period (September 2010–August 2011) and analysed with FTIR spectroscopy.
All five plants burn a mixture of household and industrial waste, and two of the plants employ NOx
removal through selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) while three plants use selective catalytic
reduction (SCR) for NOx removal.