Identifying and advancing the best available waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies for the recovery of energy or fuels from municipal solid wastes and other industrial, agricultural, and forestry residues.

Waste-to-Energy (WtE), involves producing for heat and / or electricity by recovering the energy contained in the municipal solid wastes left after recycling and other industrial, agricultural, and forestry residues. These conversion technologies play an important role in providing energy and delivering sustainable waste management.

The WtERT CANADA website provides an overview of the available technologies that generate WtE and acts as a gateway to unbiased information and technical data.

The first options for sustainable waste management should be prevention, reuse and maximum recycling. There will, however, always be remaining ‘residual’ waste. Ensuring energy recovery from this residual waste, using highly engineered, controlled and regulated facilities, has a major role to play in a resource efficient society.

In CANADA, a coalition of organisations leaded by Concordia Clean Tech has been formed to promote the benefits of WtE technologies.