RCRA regulates trash-to-energy incinerators as resource recovery facilities

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Arguably there is not much of a substantive difference between the two, other than semantics. The storage and processing of such waste is regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, Pub. L. No. 94- 580, 90 Stat. 2795 (now codified at 42 U.S.C. § 6901-87) (West 1995) (RCRA). RCRA defines a “resource recovery facility” as one “at which solid waste is processed for the purpose of extracting, converting to energy, or otherwise separating and preparing solid waste for reuse.” 42 U.S.C. § 6903 (24) (West 1995). Incineration is one way of treating and/or processing solid wastes. The Westinghouse facility is a trash-to-energy incinerator. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 982