More than 98% of the waste processed by the Plasco Conversion System will be diverted from landfill and converted into useful products. Leading the way to a future without landfills, a Plasco Facility offers the following benefits to communities:
Plasco is proud of its technology and environmental excellence. We also recognize that it takes more than technical proficiency to run a successful project. Success depends on understanding the local communities in which we work, communicating openly, and designing attractive sites. We work with communities to build strong community support. Open and transparent community engagement is essential to Plasco’s planning, building, and operation of a facility.
Until now, waste has been a problem typically managed by shipping it long distances for disposal. This results in serious emissions from trucking and shifts the environmental burden to areas that didn’t create the waste.
Power generation from waste in the past has been accomplished by using large incinerators that communities don’t want to be near, and electricity is often transmitted long distances back to urban areas. When electricity travels long distances, transmission line losses occur and costs increase in proportion to the distance travelled.
Plasco allows waste to be dealt with where it is created, and electricity to be generated where it is needed. Our facilities can be distributed across light-industrial or commercial zones within city limits. Here’s why: