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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board March 5 , 2009 Approved April 2, 2009 savin the taxpayers millions of dollars . Orange County Voice would be happy to g hen with community ty education and other services that you think will be ep Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League - Louis Zeller : I have been on the staff of Blue g many Ridge Environmental Defense League since 1986 . I have worked Chas been in the communities across NC and surrounding states . Most of our work management area of waste, initially nuclear waste . In 1988 we began solid waste mana g ' because this was the time when EPA was putting in new rules and investigations ire liners under RCRA . Over the years we have regulations about landfills to requ worked at the local level, State level and Federal level on policy advocacy and working with citizens groups all around on public health aspects as well as th k the u a economics of waste management. The title of my presentation, bete se bas� areas - question we believe that WtE is not the answer . I will touch on three the bulk of the background, history and status of the existing situation in NC , energy balance . I' ll presentation will be on types of incineration, pollution and the finish with touching on some of the alternatives . Ove rall the State has about 29 years of [landfill] capacity at the current rate of 8 billion tons / Y incinerator ear . There are 41 landfills across the state and one operating MSW Sol d located ion the Soln New Hanover County . In 1991 the General Assembly amended in waste sent Waste Management Actin Senate Bill 111 and called for a 20 /o reduIti fact over that to landfills by the 21st century . Unfortunately that did not happen* p eriod of time waste per capita has increased by 16 /o . From 1 . 07 to 1 . 25 tons per person. S assaman states that it did happen here . We have reached 50 % [waste reduction] . Zeller states that Orange County is a poster child of how to do the right thing . T onl is the leader among all counties . There a y commend that effort. Orange County be don four counties that met that reduction rate . It shows that the right thing can ev en w ithout the kind of State support that counties should be able to have . In this report the State talks about some of the impediments to recycling and waste er p gg management has been increasing waste disposal by permitting more ia so in of promoting better alternatives . One of the commercial waste dumps the reasons they cite is a Supreme Court decision which over the years has enforced es from commerce clause in the U . S . Constitution in a way that would prevent decisions to allow doing business in a practical way . Here he cites the recent flozv control des can control publicly run facilities to exert flow control, meaning that publicly run face its zvaste which is good nezvs in an otherwise gloomy picture . ' t have to tell this board anything I don about the upfront and backend costs of solid waste management. Two aspects under full cost accounting for such programs would include environmental costs and social costs, typically termed externalities . The 11