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Did you know some of the trash you wheel out to your curb every week is being made into energy?
The Olmsted Waste-to-Energy Facility in Rochester is celebrating its 35th anniversary Saturday with an open house. The trash produces in Olmsted and Dodge County is sent there.
The facility takes in around 300 tons of garbage a day, but has the capacity for 400 tons. That garbage is then heated up and turned into steam to heat and cool buildings and electricity.
Right now, the energy goes out to the Olmsted County District Energy System which divides the energy among 30 buildings in the county.
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