12-12-2007, 01:21 AM
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Bob, thanks for the clarification.
"...29 lbs per person per week, of which 19 lbs is estimated as recyclable or can be composted."
29 total minus 19 recyclable equals 10 lbs per week equals 1.4lbs per day.
Proposed Hilo incinerator is to serve about 90,000 people x 1.4lbs/day equals 126,000 lbs/day equals about 61 tons/day.
The proposed Hilo incinerator will need 200 to 250 tons/day.
"...alternatives to incineration or landfill of material unable to be recycled or composted using commercially viable methods, but I'm not hearing them."
The Council and the Mayor have been informed (from more than one source on multiple occasions) about alternatives.
The Mayor has explicitly forbid an employee of the Department of Environmental Management from presenting her Zero Waste information to Council, and has forbid her from sharing that with anyone. She has resigned, effective this month.
"My point is WTE just shuffles the problems of solid waste from ground to air."
Exactly correct! Except, unfortunatelty, incineration also puts heavy metals into the ground and into the water, not just the air.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park
Bob, thanks for the clarification.
"...29 lbs per person per week, of which 19 lbs is estimated as recyclable or can be composted."
29 total minus 19 recyclable equals 10 lbs per week equals 1.4lbs per day.
Proposed Hilo incinerator is to serve about 90,000 people x 1.4lbs/day equals 126,000 lbs/day equals about 61 tons/day.
The proposed Hilo incinerator will need 200 to 250 tons/day.
"...alternatives to incineration or landfill of material unable to be recycled or composted using commercially viable methods, but I'm not hearing them."
The Council and the Mayor have been informed (from more than one source on multiple occasions) about alternatives.
The Mayor has explicitly forbid an employee of the Department of Environmental Management from presenting her Zero Waste information to Council, and has forbid her from sharing that with anyone. She has resigned, effective this month.
"My point is WTE just shuffles the problems of solid waste from ground to air."
Exactly correct! Except, unfortunatelty, incineration also puts heavy metals into the ground and into the water, not just the air.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park