Facilities
Union
Reducing Landfill Waste
Located in Rahway, New Jersey, the Union County Resource Recovery Facility is an award-winning Thermomechanical Treatment Facility. The Facility is owned by Union County Utilities Authority and operated by Reworld®, and serves Union County with sustainable waste management. Every year, our facility processes more than 530,000 tons of waste that would otherwise have ended up in landfills.
In addition to keeping waste out of landfills, Reworld is committed to ensuring safe operations and minimizing environmental impacts. We have been consistently recognized for exceptional operations, including OSHA's stringent Voluntary Protection Program Star certification.
Our Facility’s Annual Impact
Less waste in landfills reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 1,130,000 metric tons of CO2. That's like taking 252,000 passenger vehicles off the road for one year.
We produce 42 megawatts of electricity 24/7 with our Waste-to-Energy process - enough to power 27,000 homes for a year.
We also recover 16,800 tons of metal for recycling annually - enough to build 12,000 cars and produce 138 million aluminum cans.
Resources
- Title V Permit Renewal Application (Union)
- Response to comments from Public Information Session (English)
- Video recording of the Reworld Union™ AO-25 Public Information Session - 2/13/25
- Respuesta a los comentarios de la Sesión de Información Pública (traducido por Google Translate y revisado por un hablante fluido con formación científica)
Environmental Performance
We care about our communities and operate well below emissions limits. Over 99.9 percent of what comes out of our plant's stack is what you'd typically find in air - water vapor, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide. The remaining constituents are well below federal and state standards.
- Permit Limits are derived from USEPA standards for Large Municipal Waste Combustors (40 CFR 60, Subparts A, Cb and Eb).
- CO values are the maximum 4-hour block average for that day.
- SO2 and NOx values are the daily (24-hour) block averages for that day.
- Opacity values are the maximum 6-minute average for that day.
- All emission values reported in units consistent with the permit. CO, SO2 and NOx reported as parts per million, dry gas basis at 7% O2 (ppmdv7), Opacity as %, Removal Efficiency as %.
- SO2 compliance is based on concentration (ppm) or removal efficiency (% reduction between inlet and outlet emissions).
- The dash symbol (-) indicates that a unit is off-line, has insufficient data for a compliance period or is in an exempted period.
*Results are provided for informational purposes only. Data is posted 24 hours after completion of each day to allow for quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) review.
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