Week 12

This week Team Wolfpack visited the Waste-to-Energy plant in Fort Myers, which is a facility that turns everyday waste and turns it into energy .

Cesar: "I think it is important to have facility that can do this type of stuff, because it makes for a better sustainable future, as oppose to having a landfill where waste just piles up and take a longer time before it is degraded or reused. On the contrast it can be difficult to grasp the idea of having large scale facility without raising carbon emissions and affecting people's health"

Joe: "It is good because it is taking care of two problems at once: reducing waste and creating sustainable energy source. It is cleaner than fossil fuel produced energy, and more reliable than alternatives such as solar. But I could see how it might lull people into assuming it was OK to be wasteful as it would used as fuel. Reducing the amount of waste we create is always better than merely finding new ways to get rid of it."

Vanessa:"This week we went to the Lee county waste to energy facility. This waste facility is different then most because instead of burying all the waste in the ground, they take it and use it for energy. A disadvantage a place like this would have is that the emissions of tar and other chemicals are much higher".

Katie:"An advantage of the Lee County Waste Facility utilizes its own recovered material processing for the convenience for customers, while lowering collection costs. A disadvantage is that it would be far too much of a costly expense and may take time equal to decades for to spread more facilities as this one throughout the country".