Could tomorrow's fuel come from yesterday's trash? Modern Waste to Energy (WTE) technology offers a sensible, clean energy approach that cuts carbon footprint and reduces landfill overflows. As hard questions continue about climate change and energy security, WTE is emerging as an independent, renewable replacement for coal and a costs-saving waste management solution.

In WTE technology, gasification and combustion transform municipal trash into energy. A typical plant generates a net of 500-600 kWh per ton of solid waste. With each American producing 4.6 pounds of garbage each day, modern WTE facilities also provide a greener waste management alternative to incinerators, overflowing municipal landfills, and their related environmental damage. New WTE facilities also generate energy with a small environmental impact than almost any other source of electricity, according to the EPA.

Asian and European countries are already active users of WTE technology. China operates about 50 WTE plants, and Japan is the largest global user, thermally treating more than 40 million tons of municipal solid waste each year. The sustainable energy initiative is now gaining ground in the U.S.

GAI provides a full complement of WTE-related services, from site selection, environmental permitting and public outreach coordination to design, construction, and operation and maintenance. We retrofit older plants into WTE facilities. Our professionals set near zero-dischage goals so clients' WTE projects can achieve CO₂ neutrality. These innovative engineering solutions help industrial, municipal, state, and federal governments, industry, healthcare, and other institutional clients reach their sustainable energy goals.

For more information, please contact Glenn Showers or Tom Chaney at GAI-Cincinnati at 513.721.3800.