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News
Garbage to Gold: Breakthrough Technology Uses Plasma to Convert Waste to Useable Products
By Wendy Reeves, May 3, 2010
A breakthrough technology that uses high-temperature thermal plasma to turn household garbage into a renewable energy source, scrap metal and mineral wool is attracting worldwide attention for Huntsville-based Plasma Waste Recycling. […] The PWR process doesn't involve combustion, but a gasification process that is already a proven technology..
After ending its curbside recycling program due to budgetary constraints, the city of Montgomery is working diligently to find new ways to save money and run a cleaner, "greener" community. […] The city would partner with a private company called Plasma Waste Recycling to implement this recycling initiative.
Montgomery envisions a green future, by becoming the most environmentally friendly municipality in the world by using a plasma arc gasification plant that should also save taxpayers millions of dollars.
City of Montgomery Signs Contract with PWR for Feasibility Study: The City of Montgomery has contracted with Plasma Waste Recycling, Inc to conduct a feasibility study as the first phase toward building a new Gasification Plant for recycling waste into energy.
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Plasma Gasification: Harnessing the Power of Lightning
By Tom Greenwood, June 2009
Plasma gasification is both a high-tech solution to the problem of waste management and a source of renewable power. […] “The graphite arc plasma process has three major advantages over plasma torch technique,” said Rod Vera, vice chairman of research and technology at Plasma Waste Recycling (PWR). “First…”