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Burning waste to make energy: How Amazon, American Airlines and Subaru are trying to get out of landfills [CNBC]

Republic Services, Inc. (RSG) 
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In northern California's Stanislaus County, next to a landfill, there's a company managing waste in a very different way: by burning trash instead of burying it. The energy recovery facility run by New Jersey-based Covanta harnesses steam to make enough electricity to power 18,000 homes in the area. A portion of the waste comes from companies including American Airlines Quest Diagnostics , Sunny Delight and Subaru “When a major car manufacturer like Subaru says they're zero landfill, they have done the reduce, the reuse, recycle, and what's leftover they send to a facility like a waste-to-energy facility,” said Paul Gilman, chief sustainability officer for Covanta, which has more than 40 sites across the globe. Major retailers like Amazon also use this combustion method to dispose of returns they deem unfit to recycle, resell, or donate. Amazon told CNBC that it sends some returns to energy recovery as a “last resort,” though the company declined to say which facilities it uses Show less Read more
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