InEn Tec, recently honoured as 2010 Top Innovator by the Wall Street Journal, will soon commercialise new technologies that can transform industrial, household and even medical waste into electricity and fuel for transport.

Continued investment into companies such as InEn Tec and Plasco Energy Group, could lead to the widespread adoption of waste to energy technology and lead the way for cars or houses that are indirectly powered by household waste.

Energy from Waste technologies either combust waste directly, or convert them into liquid or gaseous fuels for combustion. Thermal technologies include gasification; thermal depolymerisation; pyrolysis; and plasma gasification. Non-thermal technologies include anaerobic digestion; fermentation; mechanical biological treatment; and combinations of these technologies.