Plastic products and tires have nearly 15,000 Btu’s per pound. They, along with every other type of trash, except nuclear, can be converted to usable energy like electricity or diesel fuel. 100 percent of all trash can be collected without separating at the source and then separating the recyclable items (glass, metal, aluminum & concrete) and converting the remaining trash to a synthetic gas that can be used to produce electricity and/or diesel fuel with zero emissions and zero going to the landfill. The process can also produce millions of pure water from waste water including cleaning up the oil (Clifton Pier) from the sea.
Such a technology was presented to the government, but was not chosen as a finalist to submit its proposal to manage the trash of Nassau and the Bahamas.