Chester Trash-to-Steam Statistics

• So this is where it ends, all the stuff bought by residents of Delaware County at Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Target, and Sears, all the trash, waste, rubbish, and garbage, the stinky effluvia of material abundance, the broken, unwanted, discarded relics of consumerism.
• Six boilers combust up to 3,348 tons of municipal solid waste per day, turning water into steam that drives a turbine generator that makes enough electricity for 75,000 households.
• The Chester facility burns waste 24/7. Its "fuel" is delivered by a constant procession of trucks, 300 to 350 a day, Monday through Friday, a half-day on Saturday. It accepts all of Delaware County's trash, about 400,000 tons a year, and about 300,000 tons from Philadelphia.
• What emerges from the stack is invisible carbon dioxide, two-thirds of which is "good CO2.

As an engineer, I will say that the Covanta Energy trash-to-steam plant is a marvel. However, to allow them to put a plant that burns over 6 million pounds of trash every day in a residential area is criminal.

Or maybe I’m just crazy.

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