Connecticut
Despite recycling mandate, food waste-to-energy struggles to grow in Connecticut
A leader at the state’s only biogas plant says lax enforcement of the law has limited the potential for energy production.
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A leader at the state’s only biogas plant says lax enforcement of the law has limited the potential for energy production.
Whether waste-to-energy is “renewable” is debatable. It’s also irrelevant, writes Roger Ballentine, president of Green Strategies, Inc.
The waste-sorting operation would produce material that could be turned into an energy feedstock by customers.
Students, staff and parents say a waste-to-energy facility doesn’t belong across the street from a Gary, Indiana, charter school.
Three prominent Minnesota environmental and community action organizations recently announced they are joining forces in an effort to close a solid waste incinerator on the edge of downtown Minneapolis.