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Interested in reducing waste? For questions about recycling in your area,
contact your local city or You may also contact the Alameda County
Recycling Hotline or email the They have numbers to all of the greater
Bay Area programs and can point folks California Department of Conservation, Division
of Recycling West Coast Scrap Plastic Referral Service California Integrated Waste Management
Board Californian's Against Waste California Materials Exchange Program Beverage Container Recycling Information California Resource Recovery Association Alameda County Waste Management Authority
and Source Reduction and 800/RECYCLE (area code sensitive) Recycling Center and other Environmental Information Peanut Acceptance National Recycling Coalition Grassroots Recycling Network The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers EPA National Association for PET Container Resources NCRA's Briefing Paper on Conversion Technologies and Municipal Discards Click here Main CIWMB "conversion technologies" website CIWMB's draft "conversion technology" report to the California Legislature about "conversion technologies" (Feb. 2005) GAIA comments on CIWMB's draft report to the California Legislature about "conversion technologies" (Jan. 10, 2005) Other comments on CIWMB's draft report to the California Legislature about "conversion technologies" CIWMB's draft regulations for "conversion technologies" (Dec. 2004) GAIA comments on CIWMB's draft regulations for "conversion technologies" (Dec. 6, 2004) City of Alameda ends consideration of garbage gasification on October 18, 2004 Article about Alameda's consideration of gasification (June 30, 2004) Article about community concerns regarding catalytic cracking plastic facility in Hanford Presentations from NCRA's February 2004 Recycling Update conference: <a ref=http://www.ncrarecycles.org/ru/presentations/Fernando%20Berton%20presentation.ppt>Fernando Berton</a> highlights the status of studies identifying different types of CT and their environmental impacts <a href=http://www.ncrarecycles.org/ru/presentations/Jorge%20Emmaneul%20presentation.pdf>Jorge Emmanuel</a> is an environmental consultant, chemical engineer, and chemist who commented on pollution concerns about high temperature facilities. He has coordinated testing and evaluation of more than a dozen pyrolysis and gasification technologies for medical waste. <a href=http://www.ncrarecycles.org/ru/presentations/DanPredpall.ppt>Dan Predpall</a> is doing technical evaluations for communities around CA and the U.S. on these issues (including City of Alameda, City of Los Angeles, and County of Santa Barbara), and highlighted the different types of CT and their environmental impacts. <a href=http://www.ncrarecycles.org/ru/presentations/MichaelTheroux.ppt>Michael Theroux</a> highlighted the importance in developing projects of addressing how best to integrate plans to recover commodities, generate electricity and effectively use the thermal energy produced. Please see NCRA News issues from Nov. 2004 and Oct. 2004 for more information as well. After Toni Stein’s fascinating and factual presentation at last month’s NCRA meeting, she provided some links for more information. If you are fortunate enough to be a NCRA member, you can go to the on-line version of this newsletter and press any of the links below. 1. Text of the Supreme Court decision, City of Chicago vs. Environmental Defense Fund, that requires testing of incinerator ash for toxics (among other things): http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1639.ZO.html 2. List of burn plants in U.S. (2002 Integrated Waste Services Assoc.’s Directory of Waste-To-Energy plants): http://www.wte.org/2002_directory/IWSA_2002_Directory.html 3. Zero Waste of America’s web page
on incinerators w/many links for more info. 4. Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology: http://www.no-burn.org 5. Calif. Integrated Waste Management Board’s
(CIWMB) Solid Waste Information System (SWIS) facility/site general
summary and index: http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/SWIS/Inventory.asp?OUT=HTML&PG=INV&COUNTY= 6.Covanta (Stanislaus Co.’s burn plant) W-T-E brochure in php format: http://www.covantaenergy.com/energy/waste_to_energy.php4 7. Barlow Projects, Inc’s brochure on their W-T-E system: http://www.barlowprojects.com/540000.htm 8.Wheelabrator Technology’s W-T-E brochure: http://www.wheelabratortechnologies.com/energy_index.html 9. All about the Long Beach burn plant. (Los Angeles Sanitary District’s Southeast Resource Recovery Facility [SERRF]): http://www.lacsd.org/swaste/Publications/SERRFBrochure.htm For more information or to contact Toni Stein, e-mail Antoinette “Toni” Stein, PhD at tweil @ igc.org |
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