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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> September 4, 2008 <br /> Approved October 2, 2008 <br /> start the project for the benefit of all the last thing we want is for someone to outvote <br /> and outstrip us . Is it even enough, I don' t know . <br /> Sassaman states that this is the very beginning of the discussion . <br /> Grunwald states that it is an important consideration to move the discussion forward . <br /> Do we have the strength to keep it equitable for all parties ? <br /> Wilson asks how would you define equitable . <br /> Grunwald states that I live in northern Orange County, this is Chapel Hill, and one <br /> out votes the other every time . Does one county have the ability to make all the <br /> decisions and run rampant over another ? Can this be created in a cooperative way ? <br /> Wilson states that that is always tough . It' s tough enough to agree on library issues . <br /> When you talk about multiple towns and counties, Durham doesn' t have a lot of <br /> municipalities, when you' re talking about Wake you' re talking about twelve towns . <br /> The waste quantity from there makes one of these technologies economically feasible . <br /> Chatham is in the same boat as we are . I don' t know that Durham would do any <br /> heavy lifting to pull it off, but if someone else advanced it, they might be interested in <br /> seeing what' s in it for them . From a sustainable standpoint the logical place to put it <br /> would be nearest the largest amount of waste to minimize hauling . Taking a step <br /> back and looking 20 - 30 years forward, Durham will have been hauling for decades, <br /> Orange for 20-30 years, Wake County' s new landfill will be closed in about twelve <br /> years . When you look out 20 -30 years at what will people do with waste generated in <br /> the Triangle, you come up with a very short list of possibilities . One is to ship it <br /> further because the landfill in Virginia will be full . If you' re going to continue <br /> landfilling, you' re going to be shipping it further . The only thing that would make <br /> sense would be a technological answer . The answer is not pyrolysis . Only Mass Burn <br /> or RDF is tried and true, but the politics of pulling that together are hard to fathom . <br /> They don' t make a lot of progress on transportation issues . There are few success <br /> stories on a regional basis and garbage is not on the list typically . <br /> Grunwald asks would a recommendation be to say we are going to have to address <br /> this in the future but now we will have to sit back and see what' s improving. <br /> Wilson states that there is a vehicle to which the dialog could begin — the Triangle J <br /> Council of Government, but they have, not too long ago, essentially disbanded their <br /> solid waste section and expertise . They used to have a staff person dedicated to solid <br /> waste issues but she' s been gone for five or six years now . <br /> Pollock states that the last thing that segues from Gayle ' s point about regionalism is a <br /> few years ago the counties in the COG [Chatham, Durham, Lee, Moore, Orange Wake, <br /> 4 <br />