The following is just a sampling of non-incineration technologies that could be used for processing garbage. A system similar to one of these, in combination with a good recycling program, could result in the beneficial reuse of up to 95% of our waste stream.

StarTech: http://www.startech.net/
StarTech is a Waste Industry company engaged in the production and sale of its innovative, proprietary plasma processing equipment known as the Plasma Converter System. The Plasma Converter System safely and economically destroys wastes, no matter how hazardous or lethal, and turns them into useful and valuable products. In doing so, the System protects the environment and helps to improve the public health and safety. The System achieves closed-loop elemental recycling to safely and irreversibly destroy Municipal Solid Waste, organics and inorganics, solids, liquids and gases, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, industrial by-products and also items such as "e-waste," medical waste, chemical industry waste and other specialty wastes while converting them into useful commodity products that can include metals, surplus energy and also hydrogen for use and for sale.

Changing World Technologies: http://www.changingworldtech.com/
Changing World Technologies is an energy and environmental service company with the mission identifying, introducing and commercializing environment-friendly energy technologies to the international marketplace. The company's products and services are aimed at providing energy independence, ensuring a better future for industry, business, engineering and science throughout the world. CWT is the owner and developer of processes that convert industrial waste and low-value streams into fuels, oils, gases and carbons, with no hazardous emissions into the environment.

Brightstar Environmental: http://www.brightstarenvironmental.com/
Brightstar Environmental's SWERFR is revolutionary waste processing technology. It turns waste into a number of resources through separation of inert materials from organic materials. The separated inert resources are then recycled and the organic materials are converted into electricity. This electricity replaces electricity generated from fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas and dramatically reduces our green house gas emissions. That means it is a clean, safe and sustainable solution to protecting the planet.

World Waste Technologies: http://www.worldwasteintl.com/
World Waste has a license for a patented process designed to convert municipal solid waste into resalable commodities while simultaneously reducing overall waste volume. Through a process known as Pressurized Steam Classification, World Waste plans to extract cellulose fiber from paper and packaging waste found in common trash. This cellulose fiber may then be cleaned and processed for sale to paperboard manufacturers as raw material for making cardboard boxes. As a result, World Waste management believes its process will create value for waste haulers and communities by: (1) increasing the volume of garbage diverted from landfill sites; and, (2) producing cellulose fiber that paper mills can use to supplement their raw material inputs.

Global Energy Solutions: http://www.teamges.com/
GES, established in 1999, is a corporation created from a prior corporate formation that utilized an innovative technology, the Thermal Converter System, in order to address our world's problem with the conversion of waste through non-traditional means. The company was formed for the purpose of introducing to an environmentally conscious world the combined field of waste destruction and power generation.