Experience has shown that the construction of resources recovery systems is not a glamour issue. The illusion of disposal at no cost to communities, or even at positive net revenue from sale of energy and products, has been replaced by a realistic awareness of the potential for high disposal costs and rapidly filling landfills. Widely publicized examples of communities where plants have not operated as hoped are cities such as Chicago, Illinois, (south-west plant); Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Hempstead, New York. High capital costs have required communities to look to unconventional means for procuring resource recovery projects. Many of these techniques, particularly those involving revenue bond financing and full-service procurement, were unknown to most community officials a decade ago. Different procurement approaches have varying costs, methods of contracting, levels of risk and probability of success.