This week in class we visited the Lee County Waste Energy Facility. If you throw away your garbage in Lee County it comes here to be changed into clean energy. The plant reminds me of a twisted claw game that you find at many miniature golf places. It picks up the trash with a giant metal claw and dumps the garbage in a big bin to be burned by flames fueled by propane gas. This is entirely more efficient than landfills with the added bonus of the trash getting turned into usable energy. Thankfully decreasing our dependency on natural gas, oil and coal.
I wish our county would get rid of our landfills and conduct business this way also, but we don't. It seems more practical in every manner. It pays for itself over time because they produce and sale the energy that it produces. It doesn't fill up miles of land with raw garbage and it is better for the environment. Hopefully, more counties in this area will catch on and go green.
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