A more limited analysis can be performed assuming that upcycling instead diverts plastic from WTE systems, because land consumption is not a primary concern for WTE, and the US WTE network is not nearly as expansive as its network of landfills. Applying data from the Energy Recovery Council's 2018 inventory of WTE in the US, the average annual capacity for accepting waste of a US WTE plant is 410,000 tonnes / year . This means that over 100 WTE plants of this size would be required to process all residential plastic waste from the continental US. This is unrealistic, as only 74 WTE commercial plants existed in the continental US in 2018 (and several have closed since then ), and the existing facilities are concentrated in certain regions (e.g. the Northeast).