Falls Township Trash Plant, Pennsylvania

As much as 1,500 tons per day of trash is converted into energy at the Wheelabrator Falls plant, which began operations in 1994. Billed as the "world's most technologically advanced trash-to-energy plant" by its parent company WMX Technologies, the large waste-handling company. The stack is 386 feet tall. It is next to a landfill on the grounds of US Steel’s Fairless Plant, once a massive steel mill, now a chewed up postindustrial landmass on the Delaware River south of Trenton, with several landfills, waste sites, and lingering industrial operations.