Waste to Energy

Learn about the growing trend of trash incineration and its many benefits, like generating 19 billion kWh of electricity and keeping millions of tons of garbage from entering landfills.

Your home may soon be powered by garbage! Research conducted by Pike Research suggests waste-to-energy plants will process 260 million tons of trash by 2022.

More and more landfills across the country are turning to new technologies designed to convert a potentially harmful byproduct of landfills, methane gas, into a usable source of energy.