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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 30 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 15 million tons of waste into over 8 million megawatt hours of clean renewable electricity each year and create 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 7,800 Gigawatts of renewable electricity per year, which creates enough energy to power the homes in the city of
- Serve the waste disposal needs of approximately 12 million people in communities across the
- Reduce the need for fossil fuels, saving the equivalent of 15 million barrels of oil each year.
- Recover and recycle 360,000 tons of metals from the waste which is enough metal to manufacture 275,000 hybrid cars each year.
- Process over 5% of the nation’s waste.
- Have a worldwide presence, with facilities in Europe and