Quiz: What Do You Know About Waste to Energy?
Quiz: What Do You Know About Waste to Energy?
How do you turn one person's trash into a valuable treasure? Take this quiz on waste-to-energy facilities and see what you know.
Trash is a problem. Every time we throw out a carboard box or banana peel, whatever can’t be recycled winds up in a landfill. But engineers have a way to turn municipal solid waste into a solution, combusting it and using the heat to generate electricity through a process called waste to energy. Test your knowledge of the process in this ASME quiz.
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