{"id":621042,"date":"2023-12-05T09:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T04:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=621042"},"modified":"2023-12-05T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T04:50:14","slug":"as-indias-garbage-pile-climbs-waste-to-energy-may-offer-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-indias-garbage-pile-climbs-waste-to-energy-may-offer-the-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"As India&#8217;s garbage pile climbs, waste-to-energy may offer the solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An hour drive away from Delhi, past the capital\u2019s towering landfills, a small incinerator is working to help reverse India\u2019s chronic waste crisis. <\/p>\n<p>The JBM Enviro waste-to-energy facility runs like a coal-fired power plant \u2014 it uses heat from burning feedstock to turn water into steam that powers a turbine. The electricity generated through the process, however, doesn\u2019t employ fossil fuels and helps remove dirt from the environment, which proponents say makes it greener. <\/p>\n<p>For decades the technology has been a popular solution for cleaning up streets and generating energy across rich countries such as Japan, Sweden and the US, but it\u2019s struggled to take off in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An hour drive away from Delhi, past the capital\u2019s towering landfills, a small incinerator is working to help reverse India\u2019s chronic waste crisis. The JBM Enviro waste-to-energy facility runs like a coal-fired power plant \u2014 it uses heat from burning feedstock to turn water into steam that powers a turbine. The electricity generated through the process, however, doesn\u2019t employ fossil fuels and helps remove dirt from the environment, which proponents say makes it greener. For decades the technology has been a popular solution for cleaning up streets and generating energy across rich countries such as Japan, Sweden and the US, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}