This article came across my path and I thought I’d share it. This is about an incinerator that transfers solid waste into hydrogen gas and, well, more solid waste. The technology is called a Plasma Converter, which is emission less. The great thing about all of these new ideas to eliminate additional landfills is that the garbage still has to be picked up. Job security is certainly not an issue in this line of work, no matter where you dump it.
HOW IT WORKS
The Plasma Converter
STARTECH'S TRASH converter uses superheated plasma--an electrically conductive mass of charged particles (ions and electrons) generated from ordinary air--to reduce garbage to its molecular components. First the trash is fed into an auger that shreds it into small pieces. Then the mulch is delivered into the plasma chamber, where the superheated plasma converts it into two by-products. One is a syngas composed mostly of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which is fed into the adjacent Starcell system to be converted into fuel. The other is molten glass that can be sold for use in household tiles or road asphalt.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/873aae7bf86c0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html