Municipal Waste Gasification

Waste streams ranging from agricultural byproducts to municipal waste are excellent fuel sources for large scale gasification. In many circumstances the gasification plant can receive disposal fees along with sales of metal and glass slag and electricity fed to the grid.

The upside to waste gasification is the destruction of landfill materials. However the downside is the high cost and complexity involved with running such a large plant.

Here is a video about a company having success with waste gasification: