With trash generation climbing and disposal options dwindling, several U.S. jurisdictions are turning to new waste-to-energy incinerators.

In a recent commentary, Mary Urban, WIN Waste Innovation’s senior director of communications and community, states that “waste-to-energy facilities do not adversely impact human health” based on a ...

MONTICELLO — Environmentalists are bristling at the suggestion that Sullivan County could dispose of its garbage with a trash-to-fuel plant, a measure put forth in a third-party draft plan ...

The smokestack of the Wheelabrator incinerator, a waste recycling facility that converts trash into energy. Photo by Joe Ryan/Capital News Service. The years-long effort in Maryland to cut ...

Environmental campaigners have failed to convince a council to undermine a government-approved waste-to-energy incinerator project. The protesters wanted Wiltshire Council to drop a contract with the ...

A new study sponsored by a state waste-to-energy group and spurred by Minnesota’s PFAS Blueprint shows the facilities are receiving PFAS but expelling relatively little.

In Lincolnshire, the ash that is left is taken away to be used as aggregate for the building industry and any leftover metal is sent for scrap. The local authorities in Hull, North East Lincolnshire, ...

In 2016, Bangkok opened its first waste-to-energy incinerator in the district of Nong Khaem, turning up to 500 metric tons of solid waste into electricity every day. The 9.8 megawatt incinerator uses ...

Here’s what the new Kodiak Island Borough Regional Solid Waste Management Plan had to say about the potential of incinerating Kodiak’s municipal waste: ...

An MP has put forward a bill proposing to stop the building of new waste incinerators. The MP for South West Wiltshire, Conservative Dr Andrew Murrison, has long been opposed to waste incineration due ...