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Waste-to-energy

A burning issue for tomorrow's municipalities

by CAME F
Published in January 2012 - Page 23

Long considered a costly problem, municipal solid waste is now emerging as an important revenue-generating feedstock for waste-to-energy systems. As municipalities look to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of their sustainability planning initiatives, new and innovative methods for burning wastes to generate heat and power are emerging.

And while, at first glance, disposing of municipal wastes would not appear to lend itself to high tech solutions, technologies that convert waste

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