The plant deals with liquid, semisolid and solid industrial waste. Waste processed at the plant does not include household garbage, hospital refuse, explosives, or radioactive waste.

Waste enters the plant by the Reception area and the Chemical Analysis Laboratory, where it is registered, weighed and sampled to make sure it tallies with the information on the corresponding bill of transport.

Once reception of the waste is complete, it is moved to areas of temporary storage where it undergoes further characterization in order to determine exactly how it must be treated. When the waste is fully identified it is moved either to the treatment units or directly to the landfill.

Generally, organic and oily waste or hydrocarbons are incinerated while inorganic waste is submitted to a process by which it is stabilized, later to be placed in the landfill. Any waste that can be safely disposed of immediately is taken untreated to the landfill.

The diagram shows the steps followed by the waste at the plant.

By design, the plant can handle about 10000 tons of organic waste for incineration per year. The plant was initially designed with the capacity to stabilize and dispose of more than 18000m3 inorganic waste.