Resource Recovery
Facts about the Resource Recovery Plant
The Resource Recovery Plant is making the most out of solid
waste:
- The average person throws away 3.7 pounds of garbage every
day.
- We turn 65% of the waste received into fuel.
- We have saved over 80 acres of Iowa farmland from becoming a
landfill.
- Over a 25-year period, we processed enough refuse to fill
Hilton Coliseum more than 453 times.
- We have processed over a million tons of solid waste since
we opened in 1975.
- We recover enough metal to make 1,200 car bodies each year.
- We produce enough refuse-derived fuel to help heat more than
4,600 homes each year.
