Please see today's press release below from CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. based in St. Louis, Mo.  They are the company which is working to build a garbage-to-energy plant in Chicago in addition to the plant they are announcing today in Pawnee County, Oklahoma.  Note the capacity of the plant being planned.  Up to 600 tons of garbage per day.  Very close to what Kankakee County generates.

 

This is yet another example of what other communities are doing. (The closest being the Powers Energy of America, Inc. garbage-to-ethanol plant being built only 30 miles away in Schneider Indiana) While our  economic development people fiddle around and move at a pace of molasses, other communities move forward and get the jobs, the revenue, reduce costs of garbage disposal and put their community on the map for being open to cutting edge technologies and the jobs that will be created.