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, Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., and Babcock & Wilcox, as well as 28 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 Companies
Local Government Members
- City of Alexandria/Arlington County, VA
- Bristol (CT) Resource Recovery Facility Operating Committee
- Broward County, FL – Office of Integrated Waste Management
- Camden County (NJ) Pollution Control Financing Authority
- City of Long Beach, CA
- City of Red Wing, MN
- City of Tampa, FL
- Colorado Springs Utilities
- Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority
- Dade-Miami County, FL – Department of Solid Waste Management
- Delaware Solid Waste Authority
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- Fairfax County, VA
- Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority
- Islip (NY) Resource Recovery Agency
- Lancaster County (PA) Solid Waste Management Authority
- Montgomery County (PA) Waste Systems Authority
- Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority
- Onondaga County (NY) Resource Recovery Agency
- Olmsted, MN
- Pinellas County (FL) Utilities – Department of Solid Waste Operations
- Polk County (MN) Solid Waste Resource Recovery Plant
- Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County (FL)
- Spokane (WA) Regional Solid Waste System
- Town of Wallingford (CT)
- Union County Utilities Authority
- Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District/Davis and Morgan Counties, UT
- York County (PA) Solid Waste Authority
Associate Members
- Dvirka & Bartilucci Consulting Engineers
- Energy Answers International
- Gershman, Brickner, & Bratton, Inc.
- Green Conversion Technologies LLC
- Jansen Combustion & Boiler Technologies, Inc.
- Martin GmbH
- Minnesota Resource Recovery Association
- Plasma Power LLC
- Ramboll
- Resource Recycling, LLC
- Rich and Henderson, P.C.







