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33 <br />approximately 1,000 TPD available regionally to make an alternative technology <br />more economically viable. <br />Traditional waste processing technologies now in operation have the potential of <br />managing most of the residual waste. Generally, WTE plants reduce the incoming <br />waste stream tonnage by 75 percent and the volume by 90 percent. This leaves a <br />residue, ash, that needs to be landfilled in a permitted Subtitle D landfill and in some <br />states ash is used as alternative daily cover. Some emerging technologies could <br />reduce the residual tonnage of the waste stream even further, but those haven't yet <br />been proven in the U.S on a large scale. Even at 75 percent reduction by weight, a <br />WTE facility has a dramatic effect on the amount of residual waste. <br />GBB/C08027 -01 4 August 15, 2008 <br />