Ever since its first appearance, the incinerator has been a very controversial object which people don’t easily trust. Taking into consideration progress and the evolution of technology which have both made this instrument much more sustainable for green development, the collective imagination has never shifted from those original opinions. Moreover, issues like trash disposal and fresh food production in the United States are growing increasingly serious. We have to re-think a new living model that will concentrate on all these problems and try to find an adaptive solution with the structures that we already have at our disposition. Is it possible to create a replicable model for a performing instrument that receives energy from trash in 2020, using it to generate fresh food products that people need? It is the driving question behind this thesis, following a cognitive path that will outline these kinds of energy facilities: starting from the sociologic history of incinerators and all the issues that ensue, inherent to the recent history of Detroit and all the associations and protests against it, passing through new technologies and methods for trash disposal maximizing returns, reducing the issues of smell, and dissecting whatever other problems which are created within the community as a result.