Metro Vancouver staff have identified six potential sites for an incinerator that would turn waste into energy.
Metro Vancouver wants to build a second bigger facility by 2018 to compliment the current aging incinerator in Burnaby.
That incinerator burns 280,000 tonnes of garbage every year.
The new incinerator would dispose of an additional 370,000 tonnes of solid waste that is currently going into landfills.
Metro Vancouver representatives are looking at technology already in existence.
In Europe mass burners like the one in Hamburg, Germany are right in the middle of cities.
They produce energy to heat and light up homes and unlike toxic incinerators of the past, the new ones have much cleaner emissions.
The regional authority says the potential sites are in Nanaimo, Delta, near Port Mellon on the Sunshine Coast, and in Vancouver.
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