Waste-to-Energy

City officials have approved $100,000 to study how a WTE plant would contend with the city’s landfill limits.

A group known as Bedfordshire Against Covanta Incinerator filed its appeal against the facility following a full hearing back in July.

King County, Wash., will no longer accept plastic bags and wraps in its curbside recycling program and is considering building a WTE facility as its landfill nears capacity.

Under the terms of a new contract, all non-recyclable waste generated at one of the manufacturer's production plants will be transported to BioHiTech's Martinsburg HEBioT facility for processing.

Once up and running, the plant is expected to recover 80 percent of the plastic, cardboard and other materials it receives.

The WTE plant, operated by Wheelabrator Westchester LP, processes up to 2,250 tons of waste a day and creates roughly 60 megawatts of energy.

Vanguard also received the 2019 Longevity Award for its anaerobic digester facility at Jordan Dairy Farms in Rutland, Mass.