Covanta is one of the world's largest owners and operators of infrastructure for the conversion of waste-to-energy (EfW), as well as other waste disposal and renewable energy production businesses. Covanta operates and/or has ownership positions in over 40 energy-from-waste facilities in located North America, Italy and China. They also operate other waste management businesses such as transfer stations and metals recycling facilities complementary to our core EfW business.

Covanta-operated facilities in North America convert 20 million tons of trash annually into 9 million megawatt-hours of clean, renewable energy and create more than 9 billion pounds of steam sold to a variety of industries. Covanta's U.S. operations process approximately 65 percent of the nation's EfW volume and generate, in combination with our other renewable energy facilities, approximately eight percent of America's non-hydro renewable electricity.