EcoComplex

Catawba County, NC

The Catawba County Regional EcoComplex and Resource Recovery Facility is developing a system that will recover all useable products and byproducts from a group of private and public partners located in and around the county's landfill. This group of partners works together to use each other's waste products either as a source of energy (electricity, steam, or heat) or as a raw material for the production of their own product (pallets, lumber, compost, brick shapes/art). These shared relationships bring the old saying of "one man’s trash is another man’s treasure" into real life. In addition to these shared relationships, the EcoComplex is also focused on making and using "green" energy and on the economic development of Catawba County.