Growing population and expanding economic wealth are increasing goods consumption and wastes production globally. Urbanization and migration, in western as well as new economies, require new waste processing solutions to solve major environmental and logistic issues such as landfills fulfilling.
At the end of this process (named "waste-to-energy" and waste-to-water") treated wastes are sold as energy, clean water
or raw material for the manufacturing of new goods.
This also makes the waste management industry one of the largest above- the-ground "mine", from plastic components to steel production, to clean water.