Covanta Energy
As a world premier operator of large-scale energy-from-waste facilities, Covanta Energy is proud to offer an environmentally sound solution to communities' solid waste disposal needs. With over 40 facilities worldwide, Covanta uses municipal solid waste as a fuel to generate clean, renewable energy. Covanta's modern Energy-from-Waste facilities safely and securely turn 20 million tons of waste into over 9 million megawatt hours of clean renewable electricity each year and create over 10 billion pounds of steam that are sold to a variety of industries.
Covanta’s modern energy-from-waste facilities:
- Produce a combine total of 9,000 Gigawatts-hours of renewable electricity per year, which creates enough energy to power the homes in the city of
- Serve the waste disposal needs of approximately 20 million people in communities across the
- Reduce the need for fossil fuels, saving the equivalent of 20 million barrels of oil each year.
- Recover and recycle 400,000 tons of metals from the waste which is enough metal to manufacture 300,000 hybrid cars each year.
- Process over 5% of the nation’s waste.
- Have a worldwide presence, with facilities in Europe and