WASTE TO POWER

17th May 2019

WASTE TO POWER: A grapple crane transports waste at the Entsorga West Virginia resource recovery facility in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in the US. The facility, launched earlier this year, recovers biomass, plastics and other carbon-based materials from the mixed municipal solid waste stream and converts them into an alternative fuel source. Large energy consumers use the clean-burning fuel as an alternative, or supplement, to coal. The technology has been deployed in Europe, but the West Virginia facility represents a first for the US. Photograph: Andrew for Bloomberg