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Minutes - Regular Mee a9 <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Brd <br /> March 51 2009 April 2009 <br /> Approved Ap ental costs should not be sidelined <br /> e League believes that social and envir accounting . We believe that back u <br /> Defense g <br /> ternalities but included in true human <br /> cost <br /> a, and international law to bat p <br /> as ex <br /> environmental justice requires it . I`herelaration of principles of 1992 stated think We <br /> env the Rio dec <br /> this principle . For example pollution and other environmental damages , <br /> compensation for victims of d States . <br /> have a way to go m the Unit basic categories the <br /> ' ferent types of incinerators . There are two icall <br /> There <br /> are many different combustors . The older style were tyboiler , a <br /> starved air incinerators and the excess air <br /> or a rotary kiln or a waste feed air <br /> excess air where there is essentially CO arc or pyrolysis <br /> ' In and ash comes out at the end . The p <br /> lot of trash gong <br /> into a rotary kiln others are plasm <br /> asification units , <br /> combustion sometimes termed as g h temperatures which lead to mainte era e <br /> units <br /> Starved air combustion has very high <br /> hearth jcinerators which also op <br /> problems . These problems are shared by p U .S . as far <br /> ro units also share some of these problems <br /> hen <br /> p Gasificaon <br /> in a similar fashion. plasma arc or plasma torch do not exist in <br /> temperatures exceed 2200F . <br /> as I know . <br /> excess air incinerators emit the same types <br /> smokestacks from both starved air and 1 sis is on an annual basis for a 100 ran is <br /> The The analysis <br /> llutants, [cites chart handout] . r A tenth of a pound of dioxin and is an <br /> of po 500 tons per yea <br /> per clay incinerator , or 36 , mbustor . Mercury is present because it <br /> p y <br /> emitted from a modular starved air cc e presence of <br /> ed by combustion• Oxides of nitrogen n s <br /> element and cannot be destroy when you burn organic materials •could lower that. <br /> dioxide of necessity must come er pollution control equipment <br /> electrostatic precipitators or oth p combustion rates . <br /> com aces annual emissions to daily <br /> Vickers notes that the scale p per day would <br /> in Orange County on a little over 200 tons p <br /> An incinerator operating based on the facts developed by EPAe <br /> have double the emissions ucin boiler . <br /> Vickers asks if this <br /> is for an incinerator , not a fuel prod g <br /> r res onds that it is similar . Even the m <br /> ost advanced technologie ould have <br /> s w <br /> Zelle p <br /> such emissions * is wasted <br /> ' als energy balance: We believe thatk energy <br /> reusing <br /> mated <br /> Let' s turn to the waste to [ waste . From EPA' s solid waste handba k to paper you <br /> or burning solid wa or burning , with re <br /> by burying g <br /> than burying a er . The air <br /> materials saves far more �o f�e energy that gOeS into mak 'hep water use is 58 % <br /> are looking at a loss of ha additional air pollution, <br /> ° ° higher * water pollution is a third h g <br /> pollution levels are 74 / g is also true in the. area of <br /> higher . By burning <br /> the materials you lose energy and create <br /> Pollution and use additional amounts of water . <br /> water pollu 12 <br />