Indeed, in order to compensate
for the lack of household-generated waste or to increase the
heating value of the waste feed (Petersen et al., 2005), MSW is
increasingly burnt in association with wastes from commercial or
industrial activities, which generally exhibit higher mass fractions
of Cl and S (Biganzoli et al., 2015). Scenario W_C accounts for this
significant trend, presenting a conservative upper limit for the
expected Cl and S content. It should be remarked that the combustion
of industrial waste ‘‘as is” falls out of the scope of the present
study, since it is usually carried out in dedicated facilities that
apply specific flue gas treatment strategies different from those
applied in MSWI