Making the Case for Waste-to-Energy

Here’s a gruesome reminder of the need for waste-to-energy technology.  Sometimes the feasibility of plants that extract the chemical energy in municipal solid waste is hard to establish, in cases where the MSW itself isn’t causing problems associated with land use, odor, or human health and safety.  In the case of this terrible tragedy in Ethiopia, those factors were present in the extreme.

Our hearts go out to the victims and their families.