Efficiently turning Garbage into Energy

 

Brian Cliff Olguin for The New York Times

Trash piled nine yards high is converted to heat and electricity at a waste-to-energy incinerator in Oslo. By JOHN TAGLIABUE  Published: April 29, 2013

 

Oslo is so efficient in converting garbage to heat and energy that it is importing garbage from Sweden, England and Ireland and is even looking to import it from the US.

Why don't we import their technology and burn our own garbage?