Torfaen councillors are due to examine new ways of dealing with waste.
Members of the local authority's Overview and Scrutiny Committee will learn about new technologies during site visits to a range of facilities on October 28.
The educational visits are being organised in partnership with Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council.
Even though Torfaen County Borough Council is the best performing recycling authority in South Wales- recycling 42 per cent of waste- the Welsh Assembly has announced that by 2024-25, they want all local authorities to be recycling 70 per cent of waste.
A Council spokesman said: "Councillors are visiting different sites because it is a critical time in the future of waste and they need to look at all the options to help us meet targets including other methods of treating residual waste.
"We cannot hope to make future targets with current methods alone. Unless we embrace new ways of working and divert more waste from landfill we will face millions of pounds worth of fines."
Torfaen currently promotes recycling through its Twin Bin and black box schemes.
Twin Bin sees kitchen and garden waste collected one week and household waste on the other.
Newspapers and magazines, plastic bottles, aerosols, tins and cans, glass bottles and jars and textiles are collected weekly from residents' black boxes.