ITAD stands for 'Interessengemeinschaft der thermischen Abfallbehandlungsanlagen in Deutschland' and this group pursues a host of different activities and objectives.
 
It supports the interests of thermal waste treatment plant owners and operators in their relations with the public, politics, the authorities and other interest groups. Fee payers as well as commerce and industry are the chief beneficiaries of the activities of the group.
 
These interests are also represented in the European Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and in the Federal States of Germany.
 
ITAD promotes research projects concerned with optimisation of thermal waste treatment, and conducts intensive public relations work in order to represent the advantages of waste incineration as compared to other methods of waste disposal.