Comments on: And We Mean Anything Into Oil: U.K. Garbage Trucks Run on Trash

By: U.K. Garbage Trucks Run on Trash | NewWays for Environmental and Social Change

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:32:11 +0000

[...] by Melissa Lafsky andNina Bai via discovery [...]

By: marco

marco — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:20:07 +0000

There’s a company in Boston turning trash into electricity.
The U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) lists 87 municipal waste-to-energy facilities operating in the U.S., primarily in the Northeast. They are able to convert into energy about 13% of the nearly 300 million tons of trash generated by Americans each year.

entire article here:
http://www.livinggreenmag.com/energy.html

By: Bob Uppendown

Bob Uppendown — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:45:08 +0000

Kirklees argue that their state-of-the-art incinerator (which only burns what cannot be recycled) efficiently restricts emissions.

As someone who closely follows the progress of EVs, I find it quite useful that Smith now have what amounts to a mobile billboard constantly on show in the middle of Huddersfield, where tens of thousands of commuters and shoppers will get to see an electric vehicle in daily use. With “I am an electric vehicle” signwritten on its sides, along with Smith’s website address.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:05:06 +0000

What is the environmental impact of “burning” garbage to produce electricity?

By: Bob Uppendown

Bob Uppendown — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:14:35 +0000

The truck is built by Smith Electric Vehicles. It’s worth taking a look at the Case Studies page on their website http://www.smithelectricvehicles.com to see some of the other uses to which about 400 of these vehicles have been put in the past year or so. In the 85 years they’ve been in business, they have quietly shipped an estimated 70 thousand electric vehicles worldwide!

By: Egaeus

Egaeus — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:45:32 +0000

Makes me wonder what happened to thermal depolymerization. It sounded like a great idea when it made news a few years ago, especially when compared to landfills, but I haven’t seen it go anywhere. It seemed a lot more promising than simply burning trash, with it’s associated nastiness.