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CEO Shares Fuel Update with U.S. Energy Association Forum

Washington, DC – Mark Brown, CEO of WastAway, shared his company’s proven fuel technology and path forward for a more sustainable use of coal during a special presentation to leadership of the United States Energy Association (USEA) here today. “We’re providing a sustainable and environmentally sound approach to more cleanly utilizing coal,” Brown said.  “The …

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EPA Comfort Letter Provides Fuel Customers Added Assurance

An Environmental Protection Agency Comfort Letter recently issued regarding WastAway’s SE3™ fuel provides users solid assurances of regulatory compliance as a non-waste material, compatibility with fossil fuels, and significantly low levels of contamination. “This means the EPA concurs with our product’s capability to more cleanly utilize coal fuel resources,” said WastAway CEO Mark Brown. “It …

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Randall Roe Elected to WastAway Board

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Randall Roe, former Vice Chairman of Burns and Roe Enterprises (BRE), founded in 1932, has joined WastAway’s Board of Directors and will provide leadership and strategic guidance as the company expands into new power markets for its clean solid fuel products derived from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). “Randall Roe brings both a …

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We Are the Beginning of the End for Landfills

This e-brochure provides a quick overview of WastAway’s approach to handling waste, and how it benefits everyone involved. You will find out how our company began, see photos of plants we’ve built and how the process works. You will also find that we understand the importance of “Getting The Numbers Right” in developing deployments for …

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Food Waste: No Need To Sort or Separate

A major feature of the WastAway system is its ability to fully process all types of food waste without the huge expense of separate collection systems. Whether from homes, institutions or restaurants, food waste that is troublesome to most disposal systems, including landfills, is welcomed as an important source of energy for WastAway’s fuel product. …

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National SWANA Group Tours Tennessee Plant

During SWANA’s 2018 WasteCon, over 50 solid waste professionals and managers from across America elected to take the short bus hop from Nashville to Morrison, TN and see WastAway’s facility convert raw MSW into fuel and recyclables. Groups rotated between plant tours and a Q&A session with WastAway CEO Mark Brown. SWANA is the Solid Waste Association of …

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How Can We Achieve 90% Landfill Diversion?

Finding ways to drastically reduce the amount of garbage simply being dumped into landfills has become an ongoing frustration for many cities and counties. Add to the financial puzzle  uncertain, and often very costly, recycling and material recovery program results due to wild swings in commodity markets. Pile on more potential grief with ever-increasing tip fees, long distance …

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New Project in Bucaramanga, Colombia

WastAway, an environmental technology company headquartered in McMinnville, TN, is pleased to announce it has been selected as the equipment and technology supplier to UT Vitalogic RSU for the Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia municipal solid waste project. A preliminary announcement for this selection was made by the City of Bucaramanga and its Mayor Rodolfo Hernandez at …

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WastAway Reuses Trash

WastAway in Warren County shows it’s possible to create products from trash within a warehouse instead of dumping outside at Middle Point Landfill in Rutherford County. “The average person in the the United States produces four pounds of garbage per day,” said Terry Moore, a WastAway chief business development officer who noted that at least 90 percent of …

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