Adaloquo has come up with many methods of properly processing waste so there is a minimal environmental impact. For example, our city has preventive measures that make sure that the industry properly disposes of its hazardous waste.

     Our city also takes into account of everyday municipal waste by using the process of reducing, reusing, and recycling. Our citizens are educated on how the city functions which shows how to reduce. The trash is then tried to be reused for things like our model of Adaloquo. Lastly, any remaining waste is then sent to be filtered for recyclables such as paper, biodegradable seaweed plastic, and metal. Finally, any waste that cannot be reused or recycled is processed by a Gas-Plasma Generator.

     According to Wired, this process works in five steps:

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"1: Gasification

     A conveyer belt delivers shredded trash into a chamber, where it’s mixed with oxygen and steam heated to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. This process, called gasification, transforms about 80 percent of the waste into a mixture of gases that are piped out of the system.

2: Plasma Blasting

    Material that doesn’t succumb to the initial heat enters a specially insulated cauldron. An 18,000-degree electric arc that runs between two electrodes creates a plasma zone in the center of the container. Exposed to this intense heat, almost all the remaining trash gets blasted into its constituent atomic elements. Again, the resulting gases are piped out and sequestered.

3: Hazmat Capture

At the bottom of the cauldron sits a joule-heated melter, which is like coils on an electric stove and maintains a molten glass bath that traps any hazardous material left over from the plasma process.

4: Recycling

Swirling in a taffy-like ooze, the molten glass is drawn out of the system. Now inert, it can be converted into low-value materials such as road aggregate. Metals are captured at this point, too, and later recycled into steel.

5: Fuel Capture

The sequestered gases, known as syngas—mostly carbon monoxide and hydrogen—are cleaned and can be sold and converted to fuels like diesel or ethanol to produce electricity onsite or elsewhere."

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Electronic Waste:

We also thrive to recycle our electronic waste so it doesn’t contaminate the wildlife and surroundings. Our first step in the process is to collect electronic waste from the deposit checkpoints around the city. Then those deposit bins travel to the recycling center specifically for electronic waste. When the bins enter the recycling center, the force of magnetic repulsion transports the bins to the top floor, where the electronics are placed on a conveyor belt, and dismantled down to the core. The floor underneath directs the plastic parts in the electronics and separates them so that they can be shredded and reused for new electronics. The last floor, or the second floor, is where the electronics are sent into a 2000 degrees Celcius stove, where they are melted and turned into metal alloys, as all of the electronic parts that enter the stove are metals. The alloys range from steel, copper, to gold, and silver. These alloys can be sent off to companies to manufacture new parts in technology. Although this process may seem like it produces pollution, internally and externally, that is false, as we place titanium dioxide exoskeletons inside and outside the buildings, so zero pollution is released. The building provides a safe working place for human workers as well!

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