The Energy Recovery Council is a national trade organization representing the waste-to-energy industry and communities that own waste-to-energy facilities. Current ERC members own and operate 69 of the 86 modern waste-to-energy facilities that operate nationwide, safely disposing of municipal solid waste, while at the same time generating renewable electricity using modern combustion technology equipped with state-of-the-art emission control systems. These facilities have been recognized by EPA as a “clean, reliable, renewable source of energy” that produce “electricity with less environmental impact than almost any other source of electricity.” Energy Recovery Council members include Covanta Energy Corporation and Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., as well as 26 municipalities that are served by waste-to-energy plants and other associate members that work in the municipal waste management and energy fields.
Waste-to-Energy Owners/Operators
Local Government Members
- Alexandria/Arlington County (VA) WTE Facility Monitoring Working Group
- Bristol (CT) Resource Recovery Facility Operating Committee
- City of Ames (IA) Resource Recovery System
- City of Long Beach, CA
- City of Tampa, FL
- City of Tulsa, OK - Solid Waste Services
- Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority
- Dade-Miami County, FL – Department of Solid Waste Management
- Delaware Solid Waste Authority
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- Fairfax County, VA
- Kent County (MI) Public Works Division
- Lancaster County (PA) Solid Waste Management Authority
- Lee County (FL) Solid Waste
- Marion County (OR) Public Works -- Environmental Services Division
- Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority
- Onondaga County (NY) Resource Recovery Agency
- Olmsted, MN
- Pinellas County (FL) Utilities – Department of Solid Waste Operations
- Pope-Douglas Solid Waste Management
- Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County (FL)
- Spokane (WA) Regional Solid Waste System
- Town of Wallingford (CT)
- Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority
- Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District/Davis and Morgan Counties, UT
- York County (PA) Solid Waste Authority
Associate Members
- C&I Boiler Repair, Inc.
- Dvirka & Bartilucci Consulting Engineers
- Energy Answers International
- Gershman, Brickner, & Bratton, Inc.
- Great River Energy
- Green Conversion Systems LLC
- Hawkins Delafield & Wood
- HDR, Inc.
- Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works, Inc.
- Hitachi Zosen Inova USA
- INASHCO North America Inc.
- Jansen Combustion & Boiler Technologies, Inc.
- Martin GmbH
- Minnesota Resource Recovery Association
- New England Mechanical Overlay
- Plasma Power LLC
- Plattco Corporation
- Powerhouse Technology, Inc.
- Ramboll
- Renewable Resource Consultants LLC
- Rich and Henderson, P.C.
- Southern Recycling
- Williams Mullen







