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Industry pitches new in‑state processing and upgrades as Connecticut confronts shrinking disposal capacity
Summary
Private operators and developers told legislators that Connecticut faces long‑term regional capacity pressure and urged investments in upgraded energy‑from‑waste, gasification and advanced sorting to limit out‑of‑state exports. Proposals included a 468,000‑ton gasification + advanced sorting campus and near‑term upgrades at existing plants.
Bill Corvo, manager of Smart Technology Systems, presented a proposal to process Connecticut municipal solid waste with advanced sorting, anaerobic digestion and Valmet gasification technology on a single campus. Corvo said the plan “is designed to process 468,000 tons of MSW a year” and would include advanced AI‑enabled sorting, refuse‑derived fuel (RDF) gasification, anaerobic digestion and a carbon‑capture step for CO2 co‑products.
Corvo estimated a multi‑hundred‑million‑dollar capital cost for a full campus and said a project could be operational by about 2028, depending on permitting. He described the proposal as a way to “replace the lost MSW processing capacity of MIRA, all within state boundaries and with a substantially lower impact to the…
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