working with the private sector
providing feedstock and land for lease
at attractive rates to turn palm fronds
into animal feed and mixed plastics
into fuel... It’s exciting to look at how
we can turn waste into resources
instead of dumping it in a huge hole in
the ground. Here in Phoenix we could
fill our baseball stadium seven times
with the waste we collect from
residential customers. What are the
resources we could take out of that
seven stadiums worth of waste?
Whether that’s up-cycling furniture or
using plastic bags to make decking—
we need to be creative. Meanwhile, the
trucks that pick up that waste travel the
equivalent of going to the moon and
back 14 times. People say ‘it’s free to
throw stuff away’, but it’s certainly is not
free. Imagine the fuel needed to travel
to the moon 14 times in a garbage truck.
One opportunity to address this fuel
use is underway for our landfill gas,
whereby the methane will be captured
and converted into cleaner burning
natural gas to fuel our garbage trucks.
This will ensure cleaner air and avoids
mining natural gas by replacing it with
methane produced in our landfill.”
233http://www.businesschief.com