“They consider it a mecca of waste treatment,” she
commented. The futuristic red and silver plant,which is a
demonstration facility, has even made its way into a popular
tourist guide of Italy, and its patented technology has won mention in the latest edition of the German encyclopedia
Brock Haus. The plant is odorless and quiet.
Thermoselect’s technology takes household garbage
and gasifies it at high temperatures, thereby turning it
into useful byproducts such as electricity, sulfur, iron-alloy
pellets, a gas-known as “synthesis gas”-similar to
natural gas and a glassy, sandlike material that can be
used in the construction industry.’