A waste product is defined as a residue of production, transformation or use which possessor intends  to abandon.
Once produced, a waste product must be considered to be a potential deposit of energy and material. That's why as part of a responsible management, one will try priorily to valorise it, before eliminating it.
However, to be sustainable, the valorisation must particularly be at the same time environmental, economic and social. A reasonable management of waste consists therefore of a system optimized by practices of management of waste for a given territory, based on environmental, energetic, economic and sociopolitical considerations.

In concrete terms the reasonable management of waste develops in five stages:

1.     Reduce the production of waste product, for instance by reducing the part linked to packing

2.    Prepare products for recycling, for instance by inserting the easiness of recycling starting from the conception of products

3.     Sort out and recycle materials and organize their valorisation channels

4.     Return the fermentable parties in the earth, by making a compost of quality

5.     Promote the residual fraction as an energy potential

A typical modern waste management chain starts with mechanical-biological sorting (particle size, densimetric, and magnetic separation) which strips the organic fraction from the remainder of the waste. This step results in the following fractions being obtained:
-    Reusable fraction: ferrous and non-ferrous metals
-    Organic fraction used in composting and methanisation
-    Waste of high calorific value (plastics, wood, etc.) used as fuel for gasification
-    Inert materials.

The CHO-Power process therefore complements the other technologies for reusing wastes, since is it capable of effectively transforming the residual fractions left after sorting and separation. In fact, the combination of these technologies results in levels of reuse in excess of 85%.

Europlasma has carried out a number of audits in order to evaluate a number of gasification processes, and has used its expertise in the field of plasma systems to optimise the overall process as much as possible. In fact, Europlasma is the world leader in applications which use industrial plasma systems.

Today the objective is to produce electricity from a gas called “biosyngas”.
In the future this gas will be used to produce synthetic gasoline which may be used directly in the engines of our cars.