A Florida country has grand plans to ditch its dump, generate electricity and help build roads – all by vaporizing garbage at temperatures hotter than parts of the sun!
The $425 million facility expected to be built in St. Lucie County will use lightning-like plasma arcs to turn trash into gas and rock-like material. It will be the first such plant in the nation operating on such a massive scale and the largest in the world.
The 100,000-square-foot plant, slated to be operational in two years, is expected to vaporize 3,000 tons of garbage a day. County officials estimate their entire landfill – 4.3 million tons of trash collected since 1978 – will be gone in 18 years.
Source: Associated Press
Via: The Hindustan Times
