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A really bad piece of 2021 legislation in Virginia – ‘Advanced Recycling’
The 2021 Virginia legislature passed a really bad compromise piece of “environmental” legislation. They swapped a styrofoam ban for extremely polluted air, water, and land. Instead of styrofoam microbeads in our air and water, on the land and in our food, we get to have our air polluted and our lungs further damaged from heavy […]
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Incinerator Misinformation – Pyrolysis & Gasification
This misinformed effort to pretend that some types of incinerators aren’t incinerators has been laid to rest repeatedly, but the confusion still persists. The numbers below in brackets (e.g., [1]) refer to the linked source references at the bottom of this story. Most recently, the state of Delaware ruled [1] that a tire pyrolysis proposal […]
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Zero Waste Stories – It works!
I have provided links that anyone interested in Zero Waste might want to view. Take a look and learn! This is an operational pyrolyzer somewhere in the world. It shows the process for how it is done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HAx0odJbgM This is s video created by residents of Logansport who are fighting the largest proposed pyrolysis incinerator […]
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Discussion Between Stafford BOS and This Website
[Because of the length, I have edited the format, removed salutation lines, and shortened the “CC” list. All the text is accurately reported per the emails.] From: Bill Johnson Sent: Jun 20, 2014, at 8:31 AM To: the Stafford BOS, Stafford R-Board, and Fredericksburg City Council Subject: Re: LETTER: Stafford nowhere near landfill capacity R-Board: […]
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Letter to the Free Lance-Star
Thanks to the Free-Lance Star and Ms. Remmers for covering the burgeoning question of waste management that Fredericksburg and Stafford County face. (June 14, 2014) There are critical financial and governance issues for every conservative and tea party, liberal and environmental, citizen and business. The article contained an important typo. Urban Ore handles 7,000 to […]
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Landfill Revenue Analysis
Here is the revenue analysis prepared by R-Board Staff showing solutions that could be adopted. There are many solutions that could be adopted instead of building an incinerator.
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Op Ed in the Free Lance-Star
Don’t make county an incinerator guinea pig. Date published: 6/12/2014 ON MAY 27, the Free Lance-Star pub- lished an article by Vanessa Remmers titled “Landfill Facing $228K Shortfall.” Current landfill revenue does not cover operational costs nor fund an expansion reserve. Why? Mismanagement and poor planning. The members of the Rappahannock Regional Solid Waste Management […]
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RFP Pre-Proposal Conference 6/11/2014
The pre-proposal conference was intended to allow venders to ask questions. A brief summary of the meeting follows. Mr. Dayton ran through the Agenda provided, discussing: RFP limitations on landfill infrastructure (connections to water and sewage are insufficient to support any processes, RFP page 14). The selected vender would have to address them in their […]
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Urban Ore
Urban Ore is a reuse and recycling enterprise based in Berkeley, CA that traces its origin to the tip face of the old Berkeley dump from where Urban Ore recovered its initial tools and capital as the basis for the multi million dollar enterprise operated by 65 workers and occupying a unique site on 3 […]
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Incinerator Request for Proposals – May 30, 2014
Incinerator Request for Proposals – May 30, 2014
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