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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> March 5, 2009 <br /> Approved April 2, 2009 <br /> burning these organic materials, paper or plastics , you will see the <br /> plastics . If you are g <br /> same es of pollutants as other organics <br /> cs like coal or diesel fuel . <br /> There are tradeoffs in terms of greenhouse gasses but there are advantages to <br /> g <br /> recY clip , creating less greenhouse gasses and more carbon sequestration . <br /> ' ves@ Orange County is doing a good job in terms of recycling . In Pitt <br /> tt <br /> The alternate g <br /> NC the have established an East Carolina Vocational Center in 2003 .�e State <br /> County , Y <br /> un ' s annual per capita recycling rate was 714lbs . This was the highest <br /> DPPEA <br /> Co ty <br /> and over six times the State recycling rate , in that same year of 1091 ere is a line of <br /> a <br /> has worked hard to bring about some of these types of facehtees . annually . This is a <br /> tons of waste materials <br /> eight people and they recycle over 30, 000 nd incineration . <br /> viable economical alternative to Wt <br /> We would recommen <br /> d further investigation by your board during its deliberations of <br /> the type of facility it would want, we would recommend a materials <br /> how to pay for tY <br /> recovery facility, without incineration. <br /> aste Management Greg Peverall, director of market area development <br /> Wheelabrator/CN g <br /> for the So <br /> uth Atlantic area and with Chip Dodd working in Eastern North en e in <br /> and Peter Haviland of Wheelabrator Industries sharing with youMana our experience <br /> is a $14 <br /> solid waste management and waste to energy programs . Waste Ma -gcommercial, <br /> billion company . We started in 1972 . We serve 20 millionst-consumer processor of <br /> industrial, and residential . We are the world s largest po aggressive oals to triple <br /> America . We have WtE <br /> recovered materials . We process 6 million tons and have Aress <br /> that by 2020 . We operate 2831andfills throughout North but also energyrecovery at <br /> plants. not only through [our] Wheelabrator subsidiary t 4000 homes from landfill gas <br /> our landfills . We generate enough power for abou 600 000 homes . <br /> and generate enough power from our WtE facilities for <br /> - ing waste combustion plants for the last 15 -16 years; <br /> Peter Hav eland I' ve been runn <br /> are going to talk about today is how these plants work and the different11 the right <br /> what we g g <br /> aspects of the entire process . It ' a good decision for those folks that have who spoke <br /> g <br /> aspe p <br /> things in lace . You have to have good tonnage, a good market. Those <br /> to make the <br /> g p <br /> earlier [Bonnie Hauser] are right, you need all the pieces of the puzzle <br /> uthng it <br /> WtE facility work properly . At the end of the day all it es taking p <br /> through a boiler that is able to take it, and generate steam * <br /> t thin that happens is the truck will come in. We run facilities thaare eae s to <br /> The firs g f <br /> 11 as 250 tons / day up to 2, 250 tons / day of MSW that we process . H days of <br /> small y <br /> pictures in his power point show . There are refuse pits that have furnace . Inside the <br /> storage . The material is mixed well and is then dropp0000 F inside the throat of the <br /> furnace there are the water wall tubes . It gets above 2 <br /> 13 <br />