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April 18, 2011

During their April 11 board meeting, Ford County approved an agreement with garbage-to-energy company Eco Manufacturing LLC. 
 
Click here for the details  http://www.news-gazette.com/news/environment/2011-04-13/ford-county-approves-pact-waste-plant.html

 

 

December 8, 2010

See the 11-30-10 News-Gazette article below.  A garbage-to-energy plant is being planned for Gibson City, Illinois.  Eco Manufacturing, LLC. will start out processing 200 tons of garbage per day.   Watch a 10 minute video about the Westinghouse Plasma gasification technology they will be using. http://www.ecomanufacturingco.com/technology.html.   Powers Energy of America is using a similar technology for their plant being built across the state line in Schneider Indiana.  The plant in Schneider will be converting garbage to ethanol.  Gibson City is in Ford County about 1 hour south of Kankakee according to Google map.   

Garbage is too valuable as an energy source to dump into mountains.  The amount of garbage going to landfills in the next 10 years is going to drop big time.  It has been reported by the Indiana media the Allied landfill in Indiana, now taking Lake County garbage, will lose 80% of its revenue when the garbage-to-ethanol plant opens in Schneider. 

 

 

The News-Gazette:  Serving Central Illinois

Deal in works for Ford County waste-recycling plant

By Will Burmese  11-30-10
GIBSON CITY – An agreement is in the works between the Ford County Board and Eco Manufacturing LLC, a Massachusetts-based company that has proposed building the nation's first plasma-gasification waste-recycling plant in Gibson City.

For the rest of the story click here http://www.news-gazette.com/news/environment/2010-11-30/deal-works-ford-county-waste-recycling-plant.html