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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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Support WTE Write you lawmakers and support the inclusion of waste-to-energy in the renewable portfolio standard (RPS). What's New? 3.4.2009 Fifteen U.S. Senators sent a letter to Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman and Ranking member Lisa Murkowski urging that waste-to-energy be included in any renewable energy standard considered in Congress.
2.17.2009 The Tampa Tribune wrote an editorial in favor of including waste-to-energy in any federal renewable energy standard.
2.1.2009 The World Economic Forum released a report in Davos, Switzerland naming waste-to-energy among eight emerging "green" technologies that can help reduce greenhouse gases and change the world's energy consumption patterns.
1.26.2009 IWSA releases a new white paper synthesizing the science behind waste-to-energy's climate-friendly and renewable attributes.
1.11.2009 New York Newsday reports on the importance of waste-to-energy on Long Island, illustrating how expansion projects at two existing Long Island facilities can increase renewable energy production, reduce greenhouse gases, and reducing emissions from long-haul trash trucks.
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?".
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."
9.5.2008 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.
(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.
IWSA supports North American Occupational Safety and Health Week, which will take place May 3-9. Please click the logo to learn more:
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