Waste-to-Energy is a “key greenhouse gas mitigation technology.”₃

Waste-to-Energy is “one of eight technologies likely to make a meaningful contribution to a future low-carbon energy system.” ₄

“California Waste-to-Energy facilities provide net avoided methane emissions over waste otherwise disposed in California landfill.” ₅

“[C]ombusting waste in the three waste-to-energy thermal facilities in California results in net negative greenhouse gas emissions.” ₆

“As recycling and incineration with energy recovery are increasingly used, net greenhouse gas emissions from municipal waste management are expected to drop considerably by 2020.” ₇

“Waste-to-Energy generates a renewable energy source and reduces carbon emissions by offsetting the need for energy from fossil sources and reduces methane generation from landfills.” ₈

“Under the Obama Administration Clean Power Plan promulgated in 2015, new Waste-to-Energy facilities were eligible to generate Emission Rate Credits.” ₉

“We find that municipal solid waste combustion is a better alternative than landfill disposal in terms of net energy impacts and carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.”₁₀

“Increasing Waste-to-Energy capacity appear to provide the greatest potential for controlling future methane emission from landfilled waste.”₁₁

“We therefore commit to further reduce, reuse, and recycle waste (3Rs), and to increase energy recovery from waste.” ₁₂

“Harvesting these leftover materials as solid waste energy sources could provide multiple environmental benefits.” ₁₃

“Trash burned at a Waste-to-Energy facility doesn’t’ generate methane, as it would at a landfill; the metals that would have been sent to the landfill are recycled instead of thrown out; and the electricity generated offsets the greenhouse gasses that would otherwise have been generated from coal and natural gas plants.” ₁₄