There are 87 waste to energy plants in the U.S., compared with 433 in Europe.
Firms such as Covanta see worries about climate change as a spur to waste-to-energy projects.
Recycling rates there are two to three times America's, and the rest of their trash goes to waste-to-energy plants.
From wind and solar, to waste and biomass to energy, fuel cells, co-generation, natural gas, and smart grid, speakers and attendees discussed a diverse portfolio of advanced energy technologies that are being developed and deployed in Ohio.
In China, many waste-to-energy plants may create more waste than they save because they use coal to burn trash.
Both L.A. and New York City are considering major waste-to-energy projects, and Waste Management is experimenting with new technologies, including a test facility in Arlington, Ore.
To that end, its city hall is covered in solar panels and there are plans to fit cosier insulation to local-government buildings, build four waste-to-energy plants and buy 500 hybrid diesel-electric buses by 2010.
The biggest success story may be Singapore, which has four waste-to-energy plants that can process 7, 600 tons of waste per day.
Even America is thinking again: in 20-odd states that require utilities to generate a proportion of their power from renewable sources, waste-to-energy plants count towards the goal.
He said the "tonnage" Connon Bridge currently dealt with would be "considerably less" than it was now and the materials delivered to the site would consist of only those that cannot be recycled at the waste-to-energy plant at St Dennis.
We have important work to do and we do not have time to waste our energy on appearances.
Of course, the easiest way to save money is to waste less energy.
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Already, the world's 700-odd waste-to-energy plants generate more power than all its wind turbines and solar panels put together.
She sensed that they were going to die and she didn't want to waste precious energy fighting with them.
Since 1994 the States has proposed, agreed and then rejected two different strategies involving a waste-to-energy plant at Longue Hougue.
"I don't want to waste my energy by looking at the past, " said the ruling party's newly anointed standard bearer.
In some markets, some of the time, biomass, geothermal, landfill gas and waste-to-energy can compete on price with carbon-based fuels.
The heat is supplied by sources that range from waste-to-energy facilities and biomass boilers to micro-CHP fuel cells and solar-thermal arrays.
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He says half of the ash coming out of U.S. waste-to-energy plants is glass and metal, stuff that can be recycled.
Count hydropower, biomass, tidal, geothermal, waste-to-energy, solar and wind, and you have only 6.1% of the rich world's energy supply in 1995.
Planning permission for the waste-to-energy plant at Devonport North Yard in Plymouth was granted last year and building work is due to start soon.
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Long-term, Zell is excited about the waste-to-energy plants he has acquired.
When electricity prices go up, waste-to-energy operations will get a tailwind.
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Tractabel, a Belgian power giant, notes that it initially built waste-to-energy plants in Britain to take advantage of policies that gave favourable commercial breaks to renewable technologies.
Waste-to-energy and landfill-gas projects are likely to benefit most from green pricing, at least at first, because their costs are already close to those of conventional power producers.
The economics of these waste-to-energy plants hangs on two things.
In many countries power from landfill gas or waste-to-energy plants (like the one at Spittelau, outside Vienna, illustrated above) attracts subsidies of one kind or another because it saves emissions.
The cabinet awarded the contract on 7 March, stating that the plant was needed to stop waste going to landfill and to generate energy.
At its cabinet meeting on 7 March, the county council voted for the plans and said the plant was needed to stop waste going to landfill and to generate energy.
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