Covanta is one of the world's largest owners and operators of infrastructure for the conversion of waste-to-energy (EfW), as well as other waste disposal and renewable energy production businesses. Covanta operates and/or has ownership positions in over 40 energy-from-waste facilities located in North America, Italy and China. The company also operates other waste management businesses such as transfer stations and metals recycling facilities.

Covanta-operated facilities in North America convert 20 million tons of trash annually into 9 million megawatt-hours of clean, renewable energy and create more than 9 billion pounds of steam sold to a variety of industries. Covanta's U.S. operations process approximately 65% of the nation's EfW volume and generate, in combination with other renewable energy facilities, approximately 8% of America's non-hydro renewable electricity.