Abstract
Waste incineration technologies have evolved from simple waste disposal plants to waste-to-energy plants with the introduction of new emission control technologies. The total amount of waste in Romania is approximately 6.5-7 million t/year, and it is considered feasible that approximately 50% of the total be subjected to advanced energy-thermal treatment. On this basis, it is proposed to resort to advanced energy-thermal treatment of waste with the help of new technologies, from the sphere of innovative eco-technologies for the production of “urban energy”. Through the valorization of energy-potential waste, it is possible to generate electricity and thermal energy on a national level in the equivalent of extracted energy coal, but replaced as such with waste from this “national urban mine”. The present work is a Synthesis Report with takeovers, adaptations, updates from Ciuclea, I.-I. – Basics of the Circular Economy. Circular ecotechnologies for raw materials in urban energy infrastructures, Ed. M. Of., 2017, to which I. Georgescu-Ciuclea also contributed in the context of debates for contributions to solving the energy crisis. Waste can contribute to the actual group of “energy raw materials”, replacing, occupying the dimensional and qualitative place of some classic non-renewable resources (fossil fuels, hydrocarbons, etc.).

