Last year Nijibamini went to a place where renewable energy is born.

A place the U.S. government seems to think of as a source of green power. But this place, it was not covered in solar panels or dotted with windmills. Not by a long shot.

I just love one of the nicknames for this site.

It was called the Disney World of Trash. So, did they give you mouse ears? I guess it would be rat ears really.

Didn't have mouse ears but did walk around with a yellow construction hat type of thing.

This Disneyland of Trash is in Palm Beach County, Florida.

10 stories of trash sorting and eventual trash burning. This place is basically a huge

incinerator. Nijib was there for his job at the Center for Investigative Reporting.

It starts with like you know these dumb trucks that are just reversing back into this giant

pit, this huge cavernous pit, and just like tons and tons and tons of garbage are just being piled up.

And then these claws come down to scoop up as much as nine tons of rotten food, diapers, construction debris, take out

containers.

It goes down the chute, eventually it got to get sorted, and it goes into this furnace.

And then actually seeing this trash being lit on fire, not even seeing like this

physical feeling of the heat that's coming off just like a little pork view.

I'm like this is wild, this is nuts.

It's the same thing. I'm like this is wild this is nuts.

It's the steam generated by these fires that makes this place a hub for renewable power.

The steam spins a turbine.

It can generate electricity for up to 45,000 homes.

It's enough that this trash pit is able to make a couple hundred thousand dollars a year,

selling something called renewable energy certificates, or Rex. All kinds of people buy these things,

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