An often dismissed Disaster cost

TONS OF COSTLY TRASH FROM HARVEY AND IRMA: Three weeks after Harvey made landfall, Texans now have another mountainous problem on their hands: millions of tons of garbage ... According to estimates, nearly a half-billion dollars will be spent hauling the trash to landfills. Florida and other Gulf states also are tasked with cleaning up – and could face more destruction as storms continue building in the Atlantic.

here trash burners have steam turbines,making more electricity than the plant uses, and feeding back to the grid, for when the steam heat is not sold.