NOVELTY - Processing waste stream involves subjecting the waste stream consisting of organic materials to shredding and mixing with water to break up the material and to generate an aqueous slurry of the organic materials; and subjecting the slurry to a brief anaerobic digestion step to destroy volatile organic compounds and to generate a gas stream comprising methane, which is used in drying step.    USE - The process is used for processing waste stream comprising organic materials obtained from municipal solid waste (claimed). It is used for treating waste produced by food-processing factories, food waste from restaurants, markets, or shops, and domestic kitchen leftovers. It is also used for processing organic wastes from agriculture. It produces biogas stream used as the fuel for a gas engine or a gas turbine generating electricity.    ADVANTAGE - The inventive process is capable of processing organic materials from municipal solid waste so that some valuable materials, e.g. glass or metals may be recycled. It may produce a valuable and useful product from the organic materials that are present in the municipal solid waste.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Processing waste stream involves subjecting the waste stream consisting of organic materials to shredding and mixing with water to break up the material and to generate an aqueous slurry of the organic materials; subjecting the slurry to a brief anaerobic digestion step to destroy volatile organic compounds and to generate a gas stream comprising methane; removing water from the slurry; and drying the dewatered slurry to form a dry material as a combustion fuel. The drying is performed using heat generated from the methane. An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is also included for a plant for processing a waste stream comprising shredder (18) to subject the waste stream to shredding and mixing with water to generate an aqueous slurry; an anaerobic digester (22) to which the slurry may be fed; mechanism to remove digested slurry from the digester and to remove water from the slurry; and dryer (34) to dry the dewatered slurry. The dryer uses heat generated from methane produced in the digester.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows a flow diagram for the process and plant of processing waste stream.    Shredder (18)    Digester (22)    Filtration unit (28)    Hot exhaust gas (32)    Dryer (34)