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The Integrated Waste Services Association (IWSA) was formed in 1991 to promote integrated solutions to municipal solid waste management challenges. IWSA encourages the use of waste-to-energy technology as an integral component of a comprehensive, integrated solid waste management program. In addition to providing essential trash disposal services cities and towns across the country, today’s waste-to-energy plants generate clean, renewable energy. Through the combustion of everyday household trash in facilities with state-of-the-art environmental controls, IWSA’s members provide viable alternatives to communities that would otherwise have no alternative but to buy power from conventional power plants and dispose of their trash in landfills. The 87 waste-to-energy plants nationwide dispose of more than 90,000 tons of trash each day while generating enough clean energy to supply electricity to about 2.3 million homes nationwide. |
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What's New? 12.6.2008 The Wall Street Journal documents the resurgence of waste-to-energy and highlights a number of communities that are looking to waste-to-energy to generate renewable energy and reduce the landfilling of trash.
12.5.2008 The British Institution of Mechanical Engineers criticized the British government for not doing enough to promote waste-to-energy as a means to increase energy production and reduce landfilling, in a report entitled "A Wasted Opportunity?".
11.14.2008 IWSA welcomes Gershner, Brickner & Bratton as an Associate Member. Please visit them online.
9.26.2008 CNN's TV news program "Eye on America" will highlight the benefits of converting waste to energy as it focuses on the operations of IWSA member Resource Recovery Technologies in Minnesota. The spot can be viewed here.
9.19.2008 Recycling and waste-to-energy go hand in hand, according to a new report by Eileen Berenyi entitled "A Compatibility Study: Recycling and Waste-to-Energy Work in Concert."
9.8.2008 IWSA discusses why the world is embracing waste-to-energy and why opposition groups are misled in a letter to the editor of E - Environmental Magazine.
9.5.2008 IWSA releases a new white paper entitled "Waste Not, Want Not" which elaborates on how waste-to-energy reduces greenhouse gas emissions and generates clean renewable energy.
8.6.2008 IWSA sent a letter to the editor of the Frederick News Post to rectify misinformation spread by opposition groups in Frederick, MD. The County Board of Commissioners also saw fit to rebut the inaccuracies.
8.5.2008 WGRZ in Buffalo reports that Covanta's Niagara Falls waste-to-energy facility is turning western New York's trash into green energy.
7.31.2008 NBC Nightly News featured a story on the benefits of waste-to-energy in Fairfax County, VA. Anne Thompson reports.
7.25.2008 OSHA Administrator Ed Foulke writes a message to the IWSA to highlight the benefits and strength of the IWSA-OSHA Alliance.
6.23.2008 Coverage by Fox 4 News in Florida highlighted Rep. Connie Mack's visit to the Lee County waste-to-energy facility and discussed how waste-to-energy provides clean, green, and renewable electricity and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
6.10.2008 IWSA writes a letter to the editor which sets the record straight after several opposition groups released an inaccurate report on waste-to-energy.
6.9.2008 The New York Times highlights how Germany's waste-to-energy plants are helping to unburden Naples, Italy which is being buried under its own trash and lack of foresight.
5.9.2008 U.S. Representative Joseph Pitts (R-PA) highlighted the many benefits of waste-to-energy during a speech on the House floor and in an op-ed stating that "trash could be part of the answer for America's energy needs."
(For an archive of all news items, please click on the News/Events link above or below.)
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Quick Links Click here to download America's Own Energy Source: Clean, Renewable, Safe, and Economical.
Click here for the state-by-state directory of the nation’s 87 waste-to-energy facilities.
Click here to download "A Compatibility Study: Recycling and Waste-to-Energy Work in Concert" by Eileen Berenyi. |
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