There are already about 10 waste-to-energy plants in the UK.

As for environmental protection, the plain fact is that modern waste-to-energy plants do not pose a threat to our air or water supplies.

For example, the refuge de Sarenne has a domestic waste-to-energy plant.

Connecticut, whose five waste-to-energy plants produce about 1,700 tons of ash a day, is still trying to wear down local resistance.

The facility has been announced as the winner of a competition to design a new waste-to-energy plant for Copenhagen, with expected completion in 2016.

That is why we need some waste-to-energy plants.

These, I suppose, are carried at government expense to the waste-to-energy plant in Hartford to be burned.

Kids are better off learning the subject in depth, through hands-on experience, by watching things being made or by visiting a waste-to-energy plant.

The association said 31 waste-to-energy plants are under construction and 74 are under contract to be built.

Since then, however, the only project to advance has been the 3,000-ton-a day, waste-to-energy plant at the Navy Yard.