Trash-to-Treasure Train Keeps Austrians Warm at Rome’s Expense
- Austria’s EVN utility gets power by burning garbage from Rome
- Rome paying for plant to take 70,000 tons of trash a year
Machinery sorts trash at the EVN AG plant in Zwentendorf, Austria.
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Trash brought by the trainload each week from Rome and paid for by the city is being turned into heat treasured on cold nights by homeowners in Austria.
EVN AG, the Alpine country’s second-biggest utility, will import 70,000 tons of garbage from Rome in the next year. It will help generate more than 550,000 megawatt-hours power at a waste-to-energy plant outside Vienna, said Stefan Zach, a spokesman for the company.