Carroll and Frederick county officials held the solid waste forum Saturday at Frederick Community College as the two jurisdictions consider building a regional trash incinerator, also called a waste-to-energy plant, where garbage is burned to produce electricity.
Baltimore City as well as Harford and Montgomery counties burn trash and some are expanding their plants, but a new one has not been built in Maryland in more than a decade.
Improved technology to control pollution emissions makes the plants safer than the incinerators built 20 years
Carroll and Frederick county officials held the solid waste forum Saturday at Frederick Community College as the two jurisdictions consider building a regional trash incinerator, also called a waste-to-energy plant, where garbage is burned to produce electricity.
Baltimore City as well as Harford and Montgomery counties burn trash and some are expanding their plants, but a new one has not been built in Maryland in more than a decade.
Improved technology to control pollution emissions makes the plants safer than the incinerators built 20 years ago and garbage burns more cleanly than coal, said Lori Scozzafava, deputy executive director of the Solid Waste Association of North America.
ago and garbage burns more cleanly than coal, said Lori Scozzafava, deputy executive director of the Solid Waste Association of North America.