Miami-Dade asks FPL and a rival company to pick sites for a garbage incinerator

After Miami-Dade County’s elected leaders failed to agree on where to build a new garbage incinerator, will the private sector do any better?

In a surprise vote Tuesday, county commissioners set a December date for preliminary approval of a site for building an incinerator plant for burning about half of Miami-Dade’s garbage — trash that’s currently being sent by truck and train to landfills as far away as Central Florida. Like the old incinerator in Doral that was shut down by a fire in early 2023, the new “waste-to-energy” facility would burn trash to create electricity.

Commissioners directed Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to analyze proposals by a pair of competing consortiums — one led by Florida Power and Light and the other by FCC, a global trash-processing conglomerate based in Madrid — and recommend her favorite ahead of the commission’s Dec. 16 meeting.

Read more at Miami Herald.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/22/miami-dade-asks-fpl-and-a-rival-company-to-pick-sites-for-a-garbage-incinerator/