The County of Los Angeles is preparing to revolutionize the way we think of waste through the adoption of conversion technologies. These technologies encompass a variety of processes that convert normal household trash into renewable energy, biofuels and other useful products.

Approximately 135,000 tons of trash are sent to landfills in California every day. Los Angeles County is a leader in preserving the environment and protecting public health through a variety of innovative environmental programs. The County is involved in a diverse approach to waste management through our waste reduction, reuse, and recycling programs. In order to diversify our approach and assure the proper management of solid waste for over 10 million residents in Los Angeles County over the long term, the County is promoting the development of conversion technologies to turn post-recycled, residual solid waste into electricity, green fuel, and other useful products. With landfill space dwindling and the need for recovered energy, fuels and products, Southern California needs a variety of waste management solutions.  

The County of Los Angeles recognizes these challenges and is working to address them head on. While this website focuses on the County’s conversion technology project, for more information about the County’s other environmental programs, please visit www.CleanLA.com and Green.LACounty.gov.

Through the Southern California Conversion Technology Demonstration Project, the County will strive to:

• Educate Californians about our solid waste challenges

• Support those organizations working toward a zero-waste future

• Evaluate and promote the development of the most promising conversion technologies to recover energy, products and other benefits from our waste

• Work with communities in Southern California to create a demonstration conversion technology facility