Abstract: An incinerator is provided with water cooled nozzles for blowing pressure air into refuse in open-topped containers, fuel burners for heating the containers from the outside, a water cooled grate and doors at the inlet and outlet of the incinerator. The containers are mounted on receiver dishes, delivered in sequence into the incinerator. Refuse is incinerated by blowing pressure air from the nozzles down into each container while heating the container at its sides. Emptied containers can be reused.