I made an entire video about it if anyone wants to see what the initial idea is and some of my research. https://youtu.be/b9xVEaVDnKM

I’m happy to discuss anything regarding it, but I realize I need to be more vocal in sharing this and advocate for it. Please share any concerns, I’ll be happy to focus on answering them. I genuinely believe that Illinois would benefit significantly from a project like this on a state level.

Here’s one successfully built in Palm Beach County, Florida https://www.swa.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/Renewable-Energy-Facility-2-11

  • crank0271@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This is a really cool initiative, Jay. I’m not in Illinois but am working on a food scrap recycling program locally, which removes compostable items from the waste stream and also turns it into a useful product. Do you have a place that you’ll be posting updates and inviting further discussion? I’d love to follow your progress.

    • jaykrown@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      Awesome thank you, food scrap recycling is absolutely important. I have a community on Lemmy already started here for any recycling stuff: https://lemmy.world/c/Recycle. There’s a company around my area called WasteNot that does that as well: https://www.wastenotcompost.com/. I’m just starting to push for the waste to energy plant, after reviewing my old video, I think there’s going to be an extremely good reason to build one in the next decade in Illinois. It’ll create jobs, stop the growth of landfills, protect the environment, provide energy, and recover metals. That’s a great question about further discussion, I’ll work on creating some type of place to discuss. Probably between here on Lemmy, Discord, Reddit (even though we don’t like it). For now I may just use the Recycle community which already exists. The truth is something like this needs a social push and strong plan, hard to argue against, so we’ll need people who give a shit to push for it alongside us. It’s worth it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy

      • crank0271@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Thanks for the reply and linked resources. I subscribed to the Recycle community and am looking forward to learning more about waste management and advocating for cleaning up our planet.