WASTE RECOVERY SOLUTIONS, LLC
MYERSTOWN, PA

Covanta’s mission is to provide sustainable waste and energy solutions to ensure that no waste is ever wasted. How do we achieve this? By providing communities and businesses with solutions to some of today's most complex environmental challenges. With a global network of Energy-from-Waste and material processing facilities, Covanta is preserving valuable natural resources and generating clean energy for our client communities and the world we live in. Our Business Our tailored recycling and energy recovery solutions minimize business risks, while providing a sustainable alternative to landfills. A relationship with Covanta means you can rest easy knowing that your non-hazardous waste disposal needs will be met responsibly. As a world leader, we are focused on technologies aimed at improving our environmental performance, increasing our operational and cost efficiencies and growing our business. Safety is Good Business Covanta’s mission is to create and maintain a diverse, inclusive environment that respects the unique talents, perspectives, and experiences of our employees. Covanta is a world leader in providing sustainable waste and energy solutions. The Company's Energy-from-Waste (EfW) facilities provide communities and businesses around the world with environmentally-sound solid waste disposal by using waste to generate clean, renewable energy. Our leadership team brings decades of industry and business expertise to bear on behalf of our clients and the communities we serve. Our tailored recycling and waste recovery solutions minimize business risks, while providing an environmental alternative to landfills. A relationship with Covanta means you can rest easy knowing that your non-hazardous disposal needs will be met responsibly. Through continuous enhancement and improvement, Covanta is committed to becoming an industry leader in environmental protection. Our goal for clients is threefold: offer superior knowledge; ensure quality service; provide absolute dedication to sustainability goals. Covanta Mission Statement Our mission is to provide sustainable waste and energy solutions to ensure no waste is ever wasted. We will conduct our business in an environmentally-sound manner that is protective of human health and the environment. We will minimize impact to the environment by encouraging pollution prevention at the source, waste minimization, recycling, and responsible disposal of production by-products. Environmental awareness and performance is the responsibility of every employee. By embracing this philosophy, we all can make a difference. Covanta provides scientific testimony to the U.S. EPA leading to the passage of legislation in Michigan designating EfW facility ash as non-hazardous and directing that it be disposed of in specially-lined monofills. This is the first time a legislative body established ash policy based on scientific testimony. Through its Stanislaus County Resource Recovery Facility, Covanta emerges as the only company in its field to commercially demonstrate the chemical reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx) at guaranteed levels. Stanislaus is the first privately held and operated large-scale EfW facility in the U.S. to remove NOx from flue gas and the first to use ammonia injection for the reduction of NOx. Covanta introduces its proprietary Continuous Emission Monitoring (CEM) system. The CEM system, the first to be used in the EfW industry, can improve the air quality by being able to automatically detect fluctuations in air emissions, making rapid adjustments to the pollution abatement system and alerting operators to any change in the plant’s emission status. The Lee County EfW facility (Covanta Lee – Fort Myers, FL) is the first facility to be constructed with mercury abatement technology already installed. Notably, this cutting-edge technology is implemented ahead of impending Florida mercury emissions guidelines for EfW facilities. Covanta becomes the first EfW company in the U.S. to work in conjunction with a printer manufacturer to implement a secure destruction mail-back program for printer cartridges. Consumers are prompted to mail cartridges to the Stanislaus EfW facility for secure destruction. Covanta becomes the first EfW company in the U.S. to test fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). FTIR is a cutting-edge instrument used to measure emissions more effectively to meet current and future requirements to measure emissions from the EfW process. Tests are conducted at Covanta Huntington (East Northport, NY) and Covanta Honolulu. Covanta innovates with Low NOx (LN) and Very Low Nox (VLN) technologies. When LN technology is used in conjunction with the control systems already employed, nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions are cut to approximately half of current regulatory limits. The VLN technology has similarly dramatic NOx reductions while increasing energy efficiency, providing an additional competitive advantage. VLN technology allows facilities to achieve NOx emission levels 50 percent below permit levels. Covanta leads the EfW industry by launching The Clean World Initiative to publicly affirm its commitment to both sustainability and continuous improvement. Covanta creates its Boiler Reliability Program to improve boiler availability and productivity at all facilities, leading the company to the highest reliability in the electric power production industry. Covanta launches its Rx4Safety (Prescription for Safety) program to provide free disposal of consumer pharmaceuticals collected by law enforcement from consumers. Covanta is the first company in the U.S. to offer the service free to law enforcement. Covanta becomes the first EfW company in the U.S. to engage employees in monthly near-miss reporting as part its safety program. Another first in the U.S., Covanta Haverhill serves as a beta test site for the installation and demonstration of a new continuous monitoring system for mercury, dioxin and particulate matter. Although the dioxin monitor still requires laboratory analysis, it allows long-term monitoring of emissions without a team of specialists. Data gathered explains the relationship between operations and emissions so facilities can consistently drive emissions toward zero.