Ottawa has approved a new facility that will turn garbage into electricity. July 3, 2008 — -- This week, city counselors in Ottawa, Ontario, unanimously approved a new waste-to-energy facility ...

Plasma gasification converts carbon-containing materials - such as coal, petroleum coke and municipal solid waste or biomass - into a synthesis gas (syngas) composed primarily of carbon monoxide and ...

Waste gasification, a process for converting garbage into fuel and electricity without incinerating it, may be a step closer to large-scale commercialization. Last week, Houston’s Waste Management, a ...

Wouldn't it be marvelous if we could harvest the world's ever-expanding landfills for energy? At the moment, there are plenty of plants that incinerate garbage and produce steam to power turbines, but ...

The trash-hauling giant creates a joint venture called S4 Energy Solutions to build plasma gasification systems that convert separated industrial wastes into electricity and liquid fuels. Martin ...

HILO — After decades of trying to get a handle on the island’s growing garbage problems, county officials are taking a wait-and-see approach to a private company’s plan to step into the breach.

In theory, waste gasification diverts waste from landfills, which give off the potent greenhouse gas methane as garbage decomposes. The technology is also flexible in that it can produce electricity, ...

Believing that two landfills in a city of 12,000 is two too many, officials in southwest suburban Morris are hoping an upstart company and its new technology will help it transform the town’s garbage ...

Towns in central and northern Maine were seeking a workable alternative to landfills and incinerators when they engaged Fiberight to build a municipal solid-waste-processing unit in the town of ...