Recycling

Over the past 35 years, communities across the nation have turned to source reduction, recycling, and waste-to-energy to manage their municipal solid waste. 

 

Waste-to-Energy and Recycling

At the local level, communities that have built waste-to-energy plants have an average recycling rate of more 18 percent higher than the national average. In fact, many of the most successful recycling programs in the country are located in communities served by a waste-to-energy facility.

In addition, waste-to-energy facilities annually recycle more than 700,000 tons of ferrous metals and another 450,000 tons of glass, metals, paper, plastics, yard waste, and other reusable materials.

To read more about recycling and waste-to-energy, please see A Compatibility Study: Recycling and Waste-to-Energy Work in Concert.