In municipal waste disposal, if certain waste materials can be simply screened and then burned for power or mined for recoverable materials, then there is a net power recovery here. However, for large materials that have to undergo the bio-drying process in order to be further processed, there is no net energy recovery, because the bio-drying process takes so much time and energy to complete.
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