Interstate Waste Technologies, Inc. | Transforming Waste into Resources - waste recycling, disposal, gasification, processing, pyrolysis, waste diversion, and renewable energy

From the reduction or elimination of the need for landfills to the production of renewable forms of energy from recyclable waste, the Thermoselect process offers substantial environmental and economic benefits.

Environmental Benefits

100% of the waste becomes useful recycled products
No ash is generated – Reduces the uses of landfills
Comprehensive solution – processes all forms of waste
Closed loop process – has no process water discharges
When using syngas to generate electricity, air emissions are 90% to 95% lower than permitted by the US EPA
Does not use incineration technology
Can transform the renewable energy in waste into electricity thereby reducing the use of fossil fuels to generate the same amount of electricity while improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Can use the synthesis gas generated in the process to manufacture clean diesel, which reduces emissions from trucks and buses by more than 40%
Requires only 14 acres of land to build a facility to process 500,000 tons of waste per year
Avoids using 400 acres to landfill the same quantity of waste
Facilities can be built in 20 to 24 months

Economic Benefits

IWT offers to privately finance facilities. There is no government investment or financial risk
Cost competitive with other forms of modern thermal waste disposal technologies
Hundreds of jobs are created during the construction of each facility
Well paying operation and maintenance jobs are created for the life of each facility
Significant investment is made in the surrounding community during
construction and operation of each facility