2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 1994 Update, EPA/530-R-94-042 (Washington, DC, November 1994).
3. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Facing America's Trash: What Next in Municipal Solid Waste?, OTA-0-424 (Washington, DC, October 1989), p. 85.
4. Information in this discussion is taken from Electric Power Research Institute, Technical Assessment Guide, Revision 7--1993, Volume 1, "Electricity Supply," EPRI TR-1022765 (Palo Alto, CA, June 1993).
5. A tipping fee is a per-ton charge for discharging waste material at a WTE facility or a landfill.
6. National Solid Waste Management Association, Recycling in the States, 1990 Review (Washington, DC, September 1991).
7. Data on waste-to-energy facilities used in this chapter were obtained from E.B. Berenyi and R.N. Gould, Resource Recovery Yearbook, (New York, NY: Government Advisory Associates, Inc., 1993). Updated data for 1994 and 1995 were obtained from Eileen B. Berenyi in September 1995. The yearbook is published biennially.
8. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 1994 Update, EPA/530-R-94-042 (Washington, DC, November 1994).
9. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Municipal Landfill Regulations Mean Safer Disposed of Solid Waste, EPA/530-5W-91-066 (Washington, DC, September 1991), pp. 1-3.
10. For more details on the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and its impacts, see "The Impact of Flow Control and Tax Reform on Ownership and Growth in the U.S. Waste-to-Energy Industry," Monthly Energy Review, DOE/EIA-0035(94/09) (Washington, DC, September 1994).
11. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Municipal Solid Waste Flow Control: Summary of Public Comments, EPA 530-R-94-008 (Washington, DC, February 1994).