xvEPA
           United States
           Environmental Protection
           Agency
           Office of Water and
           Waste Management
           Washington DC 20460
SW-432
November 1979
c. /	
           Solid Waste
Resource Recovery
and Waste Reduction
Activities

A Nationwide Survey

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        Resource Recovery
                   and
  Waste Reduction  Activities
          A Nationwide Survey
This publication (SW-432a) was written for EPA's Office of Solid Waste
          by Bradford J. Max. It replaces EPA's
            1977 report on the same subject.
      U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY/1979
              ran *v',uii»I Protection Agency
                , Ufertuy
                 Dearborn Street,
                     60604

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                         ACKNOWLEDGMENTS







   The author received a great deal of assistance in preparing this report from colleagues in the



Office of Solid Waste, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in Washington, D.C. Acknowledgments



are due to Stephen Lingle, Robert Holloway, David Sussman, and Douglas Ruby for their overall



guidance and careful reviews of the report. Chas Miller, David Cohen, David Gavrich, Jane Stieber,



and Harry Butler contributed to parts of the survey, and the author is grateful for being able to rely



on their expertise. Thanks go to Donna Sweeney and Val Howard for their efforts in preparing the



manuscript for publication.
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                                  CONTENTS




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Introduction	    1




Waste  Reduction	    3




Resource Recovery	    5




    Source Separation Programs	    5




       Office  Paper  Recycling Programs	    5




       Recycling Centers	    5




       Separate Collection Systems	    6




    Resource Recovery Facilities	    9




       Municipal Resource Recovery Facilities	    9




       Federal Resource Recovery Facilities	   78




    Resource Recovery Projects Under the President's Urban Policy	   78




    State Resource Conservation and Recovery Programs	   80
                                          IV

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                                 INTRODUCTION
  This report brings together information on the
variety of waste reduction and resource recovery
programs being carried out in the United States.
It is meant to inform municipalities and other
interested parties on these programs so that in-
telligent choices can be made  among the alter-
natives available in solid waste management.
The report replaces the 1977 publication entitled
Waste Reduction and Resource Recovery Activ-
ities: A Nationwide Survey.
  Eight types of programs are covered in this
report  in two main categories: waste reduction
and resource recovery. The first program, bev-
erage  container deposit legislation,  is covered
under the category of waste reduction activities.
  The  remaining seven programs  fall into the
general category of resource recovery. Three of
these  programs—office  paper recycling pro-
grams, recycling centers, and separate collec-
tion systems—are grouped under the section
entitled, "Source Separation Programs." Munic-
ipal and Federal  resource recovery facilities
make up two more programs under the section,
"Resource Recovery Facilities."
  The  recently implemented  financial assist-
ance program for resource recovery is described
in the section entitled, "Resource Recovery Proj-
ects Under the President's Urban Policy."
  Finally, State implementation and  assistance
efforts are described in the  section entitled
"State Resource Conservation and Recovery Pro-
grams."
  Some of these eight programs are  covered in
greater detail than others. For instance, the sec-
tion on municipal resource recovery facilities
gives detailed information on  project technol-
ogy, capacity,  status,  products, markets, and
other characteristics. On the other hand, State
resource recovery activities are presented in
summary. This approach has been  taken be-
cause several programs,  such as the State ac-
tivities, are presented in detail in other documents
published by the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
  This  survey involved a review of  published
and unpublished literature and telephone and
letter contacts. Dates are given for each program
indicating how current the information is. Effort
has been made to present the most  up-to-date
facts available on all programs.
  Additional  information, questions, or com-
ments on this report should be  addressed to the
State Programs and Resource Recovery Division
(WH-563), Office of Solid Waste, U.S. Environ-
mental  Protection Agency,  Washington, D.C.
20460.


              Conclusions
  A comparison of the information in this survey
with that in the 1977 edition (reflecting 1976 data)
reveals that activity in resource recovery has in-
creased over the past three years at  a fairly
steady pace. The estimated percentage of the
total post-consumer  solid waste stream which
has  been diverted through resource recovery
rose from a little over six percent in  1976 to about
10 percent in 1978.
  In the area of municipal resource recovery fa-
cilities, growth is quite evident. The 1977 survey
identified 19 operating facilities,  with a  total
design capacity of 8200 tons per day (TPD). This
report lists 29  operating plants having a total
design capacity of over 15,200 TPD, an increase
of over 45 percent in total plant capacity. In ad-
dition, methane recovery projects increased from
a single operating facility in 1977, to  three in
1979.
   Resource recovery facilities under construc-
tion increased from  10 in 1977 to 14 in 1979. Of
the 10 facilities under construction  in 1977, eight
were in operation (or shakedown), as of April
1979.
   The 1977 survey lists  33 projects in advanced
planning. This survey lists only 22. The reason
for this apparent decline is that a much more
restrictive definition of "municipal facilities in
advanced planning" was used in this survey.
Had a comparable definition  been used for the
same category in this survey, well over 40  proj-
ects could have been identified as in advanced
planning.
   The number of separate collection programs
has also increased. The 1977 survey showed 174
separate collection programs in  existence in
 1974; this update identifies 218 programs as of
May 1978. The annual increase in the number
of separate collection programs runs  about 10
percent, with little attrition.


         Explanation of  Terms
   Abbreviations used in this report are listed in
table 1. Two  terms  that may be explained for

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benefit of members of the general public who
may not be familiar with the technology are
"starved-air, two-chamber furnace," and "flu-
idized bed incinerator." To define these terms in
simplest general concept—
  In a starved-air, two-chamber furnace, the air
supply  is limited  so  that combustible  gases
given off can be concentrated in a second fire
chamber for better control to give more constant
and higher temperatures.
             In a  fluidized-bed  incinerator, the burning
           materials are supported by a turbulent  bed of
           coarse sand or other pelletized noncombustible
           materials that are kept in motion by incoming
           air draft. The pellets in  constant  motion (or
           "flow") transfer heat to the combustibles enter-
           ing the furnace. The turbulence and transfer of
           heat help to assure more complete combustion.
                              TABLE 1.   ABBREVIATIONS
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                  Al

                  Bev. cont. legis.

                  Btu

                  Fe

                  ft"

                  MCU

                  MSW

                  ND

                  non-Fe

                  psig

                  RCRA

                  RDF

                  RFP

                  RR

                  RWI

                  SAT

                  stdft3

                  TPD

                  TPH

                  TPY

                  WWC
Architect and engineer (procurement)

Aluminum

Beverage container legislation

British thermal unit

Ferrous  metals

Cubic feet

Modular combustion unit

Municipal solid waste

Not determined

Nonferrous metals

Pounds  per square inch gauge

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Refuse-derived fuel

Request for Proposals

Resource recovery

Refractory wall incinerator

Saturated steam

Standard dry cubic feet

Tons per day

Tons per hour

Tons per year

Waterwall combustion

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                            WASTE REDUCTION
  Waste reduction measures are designed to re-
duce the amount of solid waste that is gener-
ated, thereby reducing collection and disposal
costs. When waste reduction incorporates the
reuse of products, a decrease in the use of nat-
ural  resources and in energy consumption re-
sults, and lower levels of manufacturing residuals
are deposited in air, land, and water mediums.
  Virtually the only clearly identifiable waste
reduction activities currently in practice are
those under seven State beverage container de-
posit laws.
  Comments regarding waste reduction activity
should be addressed to Harry Butler, State Pro-
grams and Resource Recovery Division (WH-
563), Office of Solid Waste, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. 20460.
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  The principal characteristics of the beverage
container deposit laws are presented in table
2, "Summary of Beverage Container Deposit
Legislation."

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                           RESOURCE  RECOVERY
  The resource recovery efforts are reported here
under the categories of source separation pro-
grams, municipal and federal resource recovery
facilities, projects under the President's Urban
Policy, and State resource conservation and re-
covery activities.

    Source Separation Programs
  The source separation technique of resource
recovery is  accomplished  by segregating re-
cyclable waste materials (such as paper, glass,
and ferrous and aluminum  containers)  from
other wastes at the point  of generation  (the
home,  office, or other place of business) by the
waste generator. This separation is followed by
transportation of the recyclable materials from
their point of generation  to a secondary mate-
rials dealer or directly to a manufacturer. Trans-
portation  may be  provided by city  collection
vehicles, private haulers,  scrap dealers,  vol-
untary recycling organizations, or the generator.
  The three source separation programs covered
in this report are office paper recycling systems,
recycling centers, and separate collection  sys-
tems.
  For more information about source separation
programs contact State Programs and Resource
Recovery Division  (WH-563), Office of Solid
Waste,  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Washington, D.C. 20460.

 Office Paper Recycling Programs
  Office paper recycling systems collect recycl-
able  high-grade  paper.  This effort  began in
banks and insurance companies and has spread
to the  Federal government  through the "Use It
Again Sam" program. High-grade paper (for ex-
ample,  white ledger, computer printout paper
and index cards) comprises about 50% of the
office solid  waste stream (up to 80% in some
businesses that have significant computer use).
Studies have shown that an office paper recy-
cling program can reduce the solid waste stream
by  40% and reduce solid waste management
costs by 20%.
  The "Use It Again Sam" program is very sim-
ple in its operation. The employee puts his high-
grade paper in a desktop  container (a small de-
vice the shape and size of a napkin holder), and
when that container is full, transfers it to a cen-
tral collection box. This box is then emptied by
 building custodians, and the contents are taken
 to the loading dock for pickup by a paper buyer.
   Office paper recycling programs are found all
 over the country. Over 110 Federal facilities with
 more than 130,000 employees are participating
 in the "Use It Again Sam" program. In addition,
 over 600 private companies  have similar pro-
 grams.  A useful guidebook that can be adapted
 to local and state governmental and private in-
 dustry  programs for paper recycling is EPA's
 publication SW-571, Use It Again Sam: A Guide
 for Federal Office-Paper Recycling.

          Recycling  Centers
  Recycling centers sprang up throughout the
 country following  Earth  Day 1970. Since then
 they have continued to flourish, although in a
 very uneven way. Recycling centers are marked
 more by their diversity than by any other char-
 acteristic. They range in size from a sophisti-
 cated group like the Portland Recycling Team
 (PRT) in Portland,  Oregon, to small, once-a-
 month,  single-material  neighborhood collec-
 tions.
  The Portland Recycling Team collects a large
 variety  of materials for recycling from several
 collection points throughout the Portland area.
 While this approach is likely  to obtain a larger
 share of the municipal solid waste stream than
 the neighborhood recycling center, there are far
 more neighborhood centers in existence.  The
 small centers are often located in shopping cen-
 ter parking lots and rarely accept more than the
 three basic recyclables: paper, glass, and metal
 cans. Recycling  centers can be either manned
 or unmanned. They can be open 24 hours a day
 or just a few hours a week.  Some programs buy
 back  materials (the aluminum company buy-
 back program is the best example of this), but
 most do not.
  Generally, recycling centers have a short life
span, since the interest and energy of the vol-
unteers  wane. In addition, recycling centers are
often marked by high operating costs and low
revenues for recyclables due to the small quan-
tities of  materials that are reclaimed. There are
several  thousand recycling  centers in America.
  For more information on recycling centers,
contact  Chas Miller, State Programs and Re-
source Recovery Division (WH-563),  Office of
Solid Waste, U.S. Environmental Protection

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Agency, Washington, D.C. 20460, telephone (202)
755-9140.
    Separate Collection Systems
  In separate collection programs, residents set
aside  recyclable  materials  (e.g. newspaper,
glass)  from their garbage and place the recycl-
ables at the curb for collection. Within the last
ten years, many communities have begun sep-
arate  collection systems to  conserve landfill
space,  reduce the load  on  incinerators, and
lower  overall solid waste management  costs.
Most of these systems  are  relatively  low in
capital costs compared with other  recovery
methods.
  Separate collection has proven to be an effec-
tive approach for reducing municipal waste ton-
nages  and generating materials  for recycling.
The likelihood of resident participation is sig-
nificantly greater in separate collection pro-
grams  than  in reclamation  centers because
residents are provided the convenience of hav-
ing their recyclables collected at their homes.
Activities of innovative programs in  two com-
munities are  described  below. The  two com-
munities are Marblehead, Massachusetts, and
Boca Raton, Florida. The Marblehead program
was partially funded through an EPA grant. Fol-
lowing these two brief descriptions, a  chart (fig-
ure  1)  gives  locations of separate  collection
systems and characteristics  of those systems,
with detailed information on 177 separate col-
lection systems. This information was gathered
in a telephone survey conducted by David  Cohen
of EPA between July and September  1977. Fol-
lowing figure  1 is a list (table 3), of 218 separate
collection systems which had been identified by
EPA as of May 1978.
  Approximately 99 percent of the programs sur-
veyed  collected some form of wastepaper (figure
1).  In  particular,  newspaper  (old newspaper
from residential sources) was collected by 76
percent of the programs, while  mixed waste-
paper  (approximately  80 percent old newspa-
pers and 20 percent unsorted papers, by weight)
was collected by approximately 23 percent of the
communities.  Glass (sorted by color and mixed)
was collected by 16 percent of the programs sur-
veyed. Cans and other metals were collected by
13 percent of the programs.
  The  number of multimaterial separate collec-
tion programs, where  two or more recyclables
are collected, significantly increased from two
programs in  1974 to 40 programs  in 1978.  Of
177 programs surveyed in 1977, approximately
20  percent were conducting multimaterial
programs.
  Municipal employees  were responsible  for
collecting recyclables  in approximately 57 per-
cent of the programs. Collection responsibility
was undertaken by private collection firms in 29
percent of the programs and by community or-
ganizations in 12 percent.
  Approximately 72 percent of all separate col-
lection systems used the "separate truck" col-
lection  method. The  separate  truck approach
requires the  use of an independent truck and
crew to collect recyclables. The "rack" method
of separate collection was undertaken by ap-
proximately  22  percent  of the programs sur-
veyed. The rack method stores recyclables in
side, rear, or overhead racks that are usually
attached to packer trucks.
  A "compartmentalized vehicle" method of sep-
arate collection was undertaken in two percent
of the communities surveyed. There are two ma-
jor  kinds of compartmentalized vehicles being
used in the U.S. One is a separate collection
truck which is divided into two or three material
compartments. The other is a trailer housing two
or three storage bins which is  pulled behind a
collection truck. Approximately five percent of
the communities collected recyclables in trailers
that were pulled  behind  a refuse collection
vehicle.
  Thirty-nine percent of the separate collection
systems had signed contracts  to regularly sell
materials to a single materials dealer for a spec-
ified period of time. A predetermined price and/
or a percentage of the market price for a partic-
ular recyclable material is always  included in
the  contract. Most contracts  signed between
municipalities and materials dealers pertained
to the sale of separated newspapers.
  Many separate collection programs are
plagued with scavenger problems.  Scavengers
are unauthorized persons who  pick up recycla-
ble material  before the authorized municipal or
private collection  truck arrives. In  response to
actual or anticipated scavenger problems, 51
percent of the communities surveyed had en-
acted anti-scavenging ordinances,  prohibiting
any unauthorized person or firm from collecting
separated material(s).
  Most of the separate collection programs sur-
veyed are voluntary, i.e. citizens are "requested"
to separate one or more recyclable materials
from mixed refuse. However, in  attempting to
increase participation and waste diversion  rates,
many  communities  have  adopted  ordinances
which "mandate" that certain materials be sep-
arated from mixed refuse. Approximately 25 per-
cent of the  177  programs  surveyed  were
mandatory.
  For additional information about separate col-
lection  system implementation, operation, and
the  national trends,  the following EPA publi-
cations are recommended.

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Residential Paper Recovery: A Municipal Imple-     A National Survey of Separate Collection Pro-
    mentation Guide, Penelope Hansen (SW-         grams, David Cohen (SW-778).
    486)
                                                  If additional information is needed, contact:
                                                State Programs and Resource Recovery Division
Source Separation; The Community Awareness     (WH-563), Office of Solid Waste, U.S. Environ-
    Program  for Somerville and Marblehead,     mental Protection Agency, 401 M  Street, S.W.,
    Massachusetts (SW-551).                      Washington, D.C. 20460.

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                              MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS

                             Separate Collection (Multimaterial)

CAPITAL COST:  $40,300

PRODUCTS/MARKET:  Paper, all glass and cans/Matcon, Inc.

MAJOR EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER:  Rendispos Corporation

CONSULTANT:  Resource Planning Associations, Inc.

STARTUP DATE:  January 12, 1976

PROJECT CONTACT:  Raymond Reed, Director of Public Health
                     Adams Hall
                     Marblehead, Massachusetts 01945
                     (617)631-0212

    Marblehead is a surburban community in the Boston area with a population of 23,000. In June
1975, the town was awarded a 3-year grant of $78,000 (31% of a $248,000 project) by EPA to implement
weekly separate collection of paper,  glass, and cans.

    The program requires householders to separate recyclables into three categories: (1) paper; (2)
glass and cans; (3) mixed brown and green glass and cans.  Those three elements are collected by
a compartmentalized vehicle each week.  Nonrecyclable mixed waste is collected by conventional
packer trucks. The material  buyer is an intermediate processor who separates the glass from the
metals and the aluminum from the  ferrous. Revenues received range  from $10 to $20 per ton. In
addition, Marblehead avoids a landfill charge of $19 for each ton diverted from the landfill. Because
no additional labor has been added, program economics are  quite favorable. In April 1977, because
the recycling program was regularly diverting 25% of the waste stream to recovery, Marblehead
eliminated one of its two regular weekly garbage collections. Now the city does garbage collection
once weekly and source separation collection  once weekly.

    EPA will be releasing several additional reports on the Marblehead project.


                                  BOCA RATON, FLORIDA

                             Separate Collection (Newspaper only)

CAPITAL COST:  None, truck rental, $1100/month

PRODUCTS: Newspaper

STARTUP DATE:  August 1977

PROJECT CONTACT: Joyce Yelverton
                     Superintendent of  Sanitation
                     City of Boca Raton
                     210 West Palmetto Park Road
                     Boca Raton, Florida 33432
                     (305)395-1110

     Boca Raton is a coastal city north oi  Fort Lauderdale. The Sanitation Department serves a pop-
 ulation of 58,000 people collecting newspaper from residential units ranging from detached single-
 family houses to multistory apartment buildings. In areas using curbside collection, residents place
 their separated newspapers on the curb, and the newspaper is  collected by a crew driving stake-
 body trucks rented by the city. Apartment residents take their separated newspaper to the garage
 area and  place it in dumpsters. The paper is collected from the dumpsters by city-owned packer
 trucks.

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    The Boca Raton program does have high collection costs due to the cost of leasing the trucks and
hiring the additional labor that is used in this program. However, revenues have ranged from $22
to $40 per ton of newspaper and the city also saves $11 per ton for every ton diverted from the privately
owned landfill that the city uses.  As a result, program economics are very favorable.
        Nationwide Survey of Separate
             Collection Programs
  The characteristics of the separate collection
programs in the nation are summarized in figure
1 and table 3.


   Resource Recovery Facilities
  Resource recovery facilities are mechanized
systems designed and built to recover  energy
and materials from solid waste. Because these
facilities significantly  reduce  the size  of the
waste stream by extracting and/or combusting
materials, they  also serve as a method of ex-
tending the useful life  of landfills. On account
of these benefits, interest in the technology and
implementation of resource recovery facilities is
growing rapidly.
  Information on resource recovery facilities in
this survey is divided into a section on municipal
facilities and one on Federal facilities.  For the
latter program,  a brief description is provided
along with a table summarizing the major ac-
tivity (table 4).

         Municipal Resource
          Recovery Facilities
  Sixty-five communities  in the United States
are involved with resource recovery facility proj-
ects in advanced  planning,  construction, or
operating  phases.  The three categories
of implementation status are identified and
defined as follows:

Operating—Plants that are currently accepting
    solid waste and processing it; plants that
    have been accepting waste but are  tempo-
    rarily shut down to repair, modify, or ex-
    pand, or  to work  out  legal, financial, or
    marketing problems;  and plants  in the
    shakedown  phase. In addition, these  facil-
    ities must be doing more than shredding,
    incineration, ferrous metals recovery, and
    landfilling;  they must  have the capability
    for additional materials or energy recovery.
    This category does  not include plants closed
    permanently.

Under  construction—Progress from  ground
    breaking  through, but not including, the
    startup or shakedown phase. Construction
    at these facilities may be halted, but a date
    for resuming work  must be known.
Advanced planning—To qualify for this cate-
    gory, one of four conditions must be met: a
    Request for Proposals (RFP) must have been
    issued for design  and construction of the
    project; construction funding must have been
    made available; final  engineering design
    must be under way; or, in the case of pri-
    vately initiated projects, where an RFP will
    not be a part of the procurement process,
    either a preliminary design must be com-
    plete and must have been accepted by the
    community involved as a  basis for making
    a go/no-go decision, or a full-service  pro-
    posal must have been formally  offered for
    disposal services over a multi-year contract
    period for a predetermined price.

    The greatest difficulty with applying  this
classification system came in separating proj-
ects in the "advanced planning" category from
those which had not fully completed any of the
requirements for that category. The course cho-
sen for borderline cases was to abide strictly by
the definitions given above. The result is that
the "advanced planning" category does not in-
clude some projects for which most implemen-
tation groundwork has been laid.
    The sixty-five projects  in  the three imple-
mentation categories are summarized in table
4. Following this table are  detailed  activity re-
ports covering the sixty-five projects. The infor-
mation contained in these  activity reports was
gathered through telephone interviews with lo-
cal officials between January and April 1979.
    The Office of Solid Waste at EPA has much
published material available  to  satisfy a wide
range of interests concerning resource recovery
facilities. The most informative are in the series
of booklets entitled, Resource Recovery Plant Im-
plementation: Guides  for Municipal Officials.
The separate publications  in this series are ti-
tled: Accounting Format; Financing; Markets;
Planning and Overview; Procurement; Risks and
Contracts;  Technologies; and Further  Assist-
ance. Also of great value for  its description of
current resource recovery technologies is a pa-
per by David Sussman and Steven Levy entitled,
Recovering Energy From Municipal Solid Waste.
To obtain these publications or  other informa-
tion,  contact the  Resource Recovery  Branch,
State Programs and Resource Recovery Division
(WH-563),  Office of Solid Waste, U.S. Environ-
mental  Protection Agency, Washington,  D.C.
20460, telephone (202) 755-9140.

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REGION 1
TABLE 3.   LIST OF 218 SEPARATE COLLECTION PROGRAMS
                           (MAY 1978)
                  REGION 2                     REGION 2 (Cont.)
Connecticut
Bloomfield
Durham and Middlefield
East Hartford
East Lyme
Enfield
Greenwich
Hartford
Manchester
New Hartford
Newington
North Haven
Norwalk
Rocky Hill
Stamford
Waterbury
Waterford
West Hartford
Wethersfield
Winchester Center

Massach usetts
Andover
Bedford
Beverly
Brookline
Cambridge
Chelmsford
Hamilton
Lexington
Marblehead
Newton
North Andover
Peabody
Pittsfield
Salem
Somerville
South Hadley
Springfield
Stoughton
Tewksbury
Topsfield
Waltham

New Hampshire
Hampton
Newmarket

Rhode Island
Barrington
Lincoln
Tiverton

 Vermont
Northfield
                  New Jersey
                  Bergenfield
                  Bloomfield
                  Bound Brook
                  Clifton
                  Closter
                  East Windsor
                  Fair Haven
                  Franklin
                  Glen Rock
                  Hackensack
                  Hasbrouck Heights
                  Leonia
                  Little Silver
                  Lodi
                  Lyndhurst
                  Metuchen
                  Millburn
                  Montclair
                  Ocean
                  Palisades Park
                  Paramus
                  Passaic
                  Plainfield
                  Princeton
                  Ridgewood
                  Ringwood
                  River Edge
                  Rutherford
                  Rumson
                  Shrewsbury
                  Somerville
                  Summit
                  Teaneck
                   Tenafly
                   Union City
                   Upper Saddle River
                  West Orange
                  Wharton
                   New York
                   Ardsley
                   Briarcliff Manor
                   Bronxville
                   Carmel
                   Cortland
                   Dobbs Ferry
                   Floral Park
                   Garden City
                   Great Neck
                   Harrison
                   Hastings
                   Irvington
                   Ithaca
Lynbrook
Mamaroneck
Mamaroneck and Larchmont
Mount Kisco
New Cassel
New Rochelle
New York
North Hempstead
North Tarrytown
Oceanside
Ossining
Ossining township
Oyster Bay
Peekskill
Pelham
Pelham Manor
Pleasantville
Ramapo
Rockville Centre
Rye
Tarrytown
White Plains
Yonkers

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Maryland
Bowie
Greenbelt
Rockville

Pennsylvania
Abington
Allentown
Clifton Heights
Darby
Swarthmore

Virginia
Alexandria
Fairfax
Falls  Church
Vienna

REGION 4

Alabama
Birmingham

Florida
Boca  Raton
Oakland Park
South Miami
Temple Terrace
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        TABLE 3.
REGION 4 (Cont.)

Georgia
Macon

Kentucky
Lexington
Saint Matthews

Tennessee
Signal Mountain

REGION 5

Illinois
Aurora
Franklin Park
Rockford
Rolling Meadows

Indiana
Atlanta
Bloomington
Greencastle
Speedway
Wabash

Michigan
Birmingham
Huntington Woods

Minnesota
Brooklyn Center
Columbia Heights
Mankato
North Mankato

Ohio
Glendale
Indian Hill
Wyoming

Wisconsin
Appleton
Bayside
Madison
LIST OF 218 SEPARATE COLLECTION PROGRAMS (Cont.)
                   (MAY 1978)
          REGION 5 (Cont.)              REGION 9
          Menasha
          Milwaukee
          Oshkosh
          Racine
          Sheboygan
          Shorewood
          Two Rivers
          Whitefish Bay


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          Texas
          Dallas
          El Paso
          Garland
          University Park

          REGION 7

          Iowa
          Sioux City

          Missouri
          Crestwood
          University City

          REGION 8

          Colorado
          Boulder
          Northglenn

          Montana
          Helena

          North Dakota
          Fargo

          South Dakota
          Sioux Falls

          Utah
          Salt Lake City
Arizona
Tucson

California
Arcata
Atherton
Belmont
Berkeley
Burlingame
Davis
Downey
El Cerrito
Foster City
Fresno, Clovis Metro Area
Fullerton
Half Moon Bay
Hillsborough
Menlo Park
Modesto
Newport Beach
Ontario
Pacifica
Palm Springs
Palo Alto
Redwood City
Sacramento County
San Anselmo
San Bernardino
San Carlos
San Diego
San Francisco
San Luis Obispo
San Mateo
Santa Barbara
Santa Maria
Santa Rosa

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Washington
Omak
Seattle
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    TABLE 4.   SUMMARY OF MUNICIPAL RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITIES

                                         Design Capacity/
Location
Systems in Operation (29)
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Ames, Iowa
Azusa, California
Baltimore, Maryland
(temporarily shut down)
Baltimore County, Maryland
Blytheville, Arkansas
(temporarily shut down)
Braintree, Massachusetts
Chicago, Illinois (Northwest
Incinerator)
Chicago, Illinois (SW Supp.
Fuel) (shakedown)
Crossville, Tennessee
East Bridgewater,
Massachusetts
Groveton, New Hampshire
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Hempstead, New York
(shakedown)
Lane County, Oregon
(shakedown)
Madison, Wisconsin
(shakedown)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(shakedown)

Mountain View, California
Nashville, Tennessee
New Orleans, Louisiana

Norfolk, Virginia (U.S. Naval
Station)
North Little Rock, Arkansas
Oceanside, New York
Palos Verdes, California
Pompano Beach, Florida
(shakedown)
Portsmouth, Virginia (Norfolk
Naval Shipyard)
Salem, Virginia
Saugus, Massachusetts
Siloam Springs, Arkansas
Systems Under Construction
Akron, Ohio
Albany, New York
Type*

Composting
RDF
Methane
Pyrolysis

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MCU

WWC
WWC

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MCU
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MCU
Codispoal

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RDF

RDF

RDF


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WWC
Material
recovery
WWC

MCU
WWC
Methane
Codisposal

WWC

MCU
WWC
MCU
(14)$
WWC
RDF
Avg. Throughput,
TPD*

25/25
400/170
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shutdown
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50/temp.
shutdown
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1000/500

60/65
160/varies

30/6-11
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1000
750
Products *

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Methane
Steam

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Steam

Steam
Steam (Fe***)

RDF, Fe

Steam
RDF

Steam
Steam

Electricity (Fe**,
Al**, glass**)
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glass
aggregate**)
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Steam
Fe, Al (glass**)

Steam

Steam
Steam
Methane
Methane

Steam

Steam
Steam (Fe***)
Steam

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1975

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1980
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  TABLE 4.  SUMMARY OF MUNICIPAL RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITIES (Cont.)
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Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Dade County, Florida
Duluth, Minnesota

Genesee Township, Michigan
Hampton, Virginia (NASA,
USAF)
Lewisburg, Tennessee
Los Angeles, California
Monroe County, New York
Monterey Park, California
Niagara Falls, New York
Osceola, Arkansas
Wilmington, Delaware

Systems in Advanced Planning (1
Appleton, Wisconsin
Auburn, Maine
Beverly, Massachusetts
(Bayside Project)
Burlington, Vermont
Columbus, Ohio
Detroit, Michigan
Dubuque, Iowa
Gallatin, Tennessee
Glen Cove, New York

Lakeland, Florida
Newark, New Jersey
Norfolk, Virginia (SE Virginia
Planning Authority)
North Andover, Massachusetts
(NESWC)
Oyster Bay, New York
Peabody, Massachusetts
(SESWC)
Pinellas County, Florida

Pittsfield, Massachusetts
St. Paul, Minnesota
Staten Island, New York
Toledo, Ohio
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Westchester County, NY
Type*
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RDF
Codisposal

MCU
WWC

RWI
Methane
RDF
Methane
RDF
MCU
Codisposal

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MCU
WWC

MCU
RDF
RDF
WWC
WWC
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RDF
RDF

WWC

WWC
RDF

WWC

MCU
WWC
Methane
ND
RDF
WWC
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TPD * Products * Date
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3500
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200

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1000 MSW, 50
sludge

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1200
3000
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150
225 MSW, 25
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300
2000
2000

3000

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2000

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1500
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1000
1500
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RDF, Fe, Al, glass
Steam, Fe

Steam, electricity
Steam

Steam
Methane
RDF, Fe, Al, glass
Methane
Steam, Fe
Steam
Steam, Fe, Al,
glass, humus

Steam, Fe
Steam
Steam, electricity, Fe

Steam or hot water
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Steam, electricity, Fe
Steam, Fe
Steam, electricity
Electricity

Electricity, Fe
RDF, Fe
RDF, electricity

Electricity

ND
RDF, Fe

Electricity, Fe, non-
Fe, aggregate
Steam, Fe
Steam, Fe
Methane
Steam, Fe
RDF, Fe
Steam
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1981
1979

1979
1980

1979
1979
1979
1979
1980
1979
1982


1982
1980
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ND
1981
1983
1981
1981
1981

1981
1981
1983

ND

1985
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1982

1980
1983
1981
1982
1982
1983
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or in planning.
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  *** Material being recovered, but not sold.
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                                      AKRON, OHIO*
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of processed waste in a waterwall furnace to produce steam

DESIGN CAPACITY:  1000 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  September 1979

CAPITAL COST:  Approximately $48 million (Including construction,  engineering fees, financing,
  and all other costs)

FINANCING:   Revenue and general obligation bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Glaus, Pyle, Schomer, Burns & DeHaven, Inc.

Operator—Teledyne National

Owner—City of Akron

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/Business district heating system; The B.F.  Goodrich Co.; University of Akron; Akron City
  Hospital

Ferrous metals/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  Robert A. Edwards
                     Service Director
                     156 South High Street
                     Akron, Ohio 44308
                     (216) 375-2270

PROJECT STATUS:  Under construction

Construction is approaching completion. The boilers were scheduled to be fired in mid-April 1979.

The City of Akron passed an ordinance which requires that waste collected by private haulers in the
city be disposed of at the new facility when it is completed. Private haulers serving the area objected
to this restriction and brought suit, to be resolved in May 1979.
                                    ALBANY, NEW YORK
 PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to produce RDF for use as a primary fuel in off-site production
   of steam

 DESIGN CAPACITY:  750 TPD

 EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  June 1980

 CAPITAL COST:  $11 million for RDF facility; $11 million for steam generator

 FINANCING:  50% State bonds, 50% municipal general obligation bonds
   Tor list of abbreviations used, see Table 1.

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PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Smith and Mahoney Consulting Engineers

Operator—Not determined

Owner—City of Albany

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

RDF (fluff)/New York State Office of General Services

Ferrous metals/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  Wallace Johnson
                     Project Manager
                     Smith and Mahoney
                     40  Steuben Street
                     Albany, New York 12207
                     (518) 463-4107

PROJECT STATUS:  Under construction

The city of Albany began  taking steps in 1973 to ascertain the feasibility of resource recovery. After
evaluating several alternatives, the city selected the processing of waste for use as a primary fuel
in steam generation. An attempt was made to employ a simple processing technology, and the design
which was adopted includes only shredding and ferrous metals recovery. The plant is being built
on the site of one of the city's old landfills. As of February 1979, the concrete foundation for thefacility
had been laid, the steel frame had been set up, and the shredders were in place.

The RDF will be burned  as a primary fuel  in two stoker-fired boilers which are being built near
downtown Albany by the New York State Office of General Services. The boiler facility will cost
approximately $11 million and is expected to be completed by mid-1980. The steam generated will
satisfy heating and cooling needs of the Office of General Services.
                                 ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA
PROJECT TYPE:  Composting of solid waste

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—25 TPD

Actual Average Throughput—25 TPD

STARTUP DATE:  1963

CAPITAL COSTS:  Not available

FINANCING:  Private capital

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Fairfield Engineering Co.

Operator—Fairfield Engineering Co.

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Products

Humus (Carrier in
  lightweight
  fertilizer)
                   Ch or arc teris tics

                   Vary with
                     customer;
                     granulated,
                     pelletized, etc.
    Amount
   Recovered
   or Produced    Status

Approx. 8 TPD    Selling
PROJECT CONTACT:
Markets

Individuals, nurseries,
  poultry farm (as lit-
  ter)
                     Daniel Detwiler
                     Plant Manager
                     R.D. 1, Box 925
                     Altoona, Pennsylvania 16601
                     (814) 942-8938

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

This plant handles all residential solid waste (no oversized bulky waste or commercial waste) which
the city collects. The system consists of primary shredding, electromagnetic separation, air classi-
fication, secondary shredding, aerobic digestion (5 to 7 days), and final processing to suit customer
demand.  The plant residuals (15 percent of input) are landfilled.  The plant has demonstrated the
ability to handle sewage sludge.
                                        AMES, IOWA
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to produce RDF foi use as a supplemental fuel in off-site
  generation of steam/electricity

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—400 TPD

Actual Average Throughput—170 TPD

STARTUP DATE:   September 1975

CAPITAL COSTS:  $6.2 million (1974) (Including engineering, construction, miscellaneous equipment,
  startup, land)

FINANCING:  General obligation bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Gibbs, Hill, Durham & Richardson, Inc.

Operator—City of Ames

Owner—City of Ames

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

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Products

RDF


Ferrous metals

Aluminum
Ch aracteiis tics

Fluff, I'/zinch


Shredded

Shredded
    Amount
   Recovered
   or Produced
Status
Markets
Approx. 135 TPD  Transported pnuematically to city-owned
                   power plant.
12 TPD

Minimal
Selling

Infrequent
  operation
Vulcan Materials Co.

Aluminum Company of
  America (Alcoa)
PROJECT CONTACT:  Arnold Chantland
                     Director, Department of Public Works
                     City Hall
                     5th and Kellog Streets
                     Ames, Iowa 50010
                     (515) 232-7479

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

The plant  at Ames was the first commercial RDF facility to be built. It was patterned after the St.
Louis demonstration plant.

The RDF is burned in a city-owned power plant which includes a 33 megawatt suspension-fired boiler
and two 20 megawatt spreader-stoker (grate equipped) boilers. The suspension-fired unit, the most
efficient of the three,  did not provide sufficient retention time for complete combustion of heavy
organics, and it was modified in spring 1978 to include burn-out grates at the bottom of the unit. The
suspension-fired unit is now being fired using 20 percent RDF, 80 percent coal, without problems.
The two spreader-stoker units were routinely operated at up to 50 percent RDF.

The aluminum  recovery system has produced minimal amounts of product due to both operating
problems and the fact that the feed to the system contains very little aluminum.

Several process modifications to the plant have been required, including dust collection equipment
and screening of the RDF. Net costs have averaged over $10 per ton of waste processed. However,
the plant has consistently processed Ames' waste and  produced RDF which is burned regularly in
the city power plant's boilers.
                                  APPLETON, WISCONSIN
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to produce RDF for use as a primary fuel in off-site generation
  of steam

DESIGN CAPACITY: 2400 TPD (Two 1200-TPD lines)

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Late 1982

CAPITAL COSTS:  Processing facility—approximately $26 million (Includes costs for entire facility,
                  plus seven transfer stations)
                  Boiler units—approximately $15 million, total

FINANCING:  Revenue bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Sadoff & Rudoy Industry

Operator—Sadoff & Rudoy Industry
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Owner—Not determined

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

RDF/Midtech Paper Company

Ferrous metals/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  Wisconsin Solid Waste Recycling Authority
                     3321 West Beltline Highway
                     Madison, Wisconsin 53713
                     (608) 266-2686

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

An RFP for design,  construction,  and operation of  a waste processing facility was issued by the
Wisconsin Solid Waste Recycling Authority in 1977. In February 1978, Sadoff & Rudoy was selected
as contractor, and negotiations are about 90 percent complete. The Authority is also holding discus-
sions with Midtech Paper Company, for construction of a boiler unit to burn the RDF on the site of
Midtech's plant. These talks with  Midtech are crucial to further progress of the project.

By State law the Wisconsin  Solid Waste Recycling Authority has control of waste in its designated
region.


                                     AUBURN, MAINE
PROJECT  TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in  a two-chamber, starved-air, modular
  incinerator to produce steam

DESIGN CAPACITY:  150 or 200 TPD (3 or 4 modular units)

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Late spring 1980

CAPITAL COST:   $2.9 million (3 units)

FINANCING:   General obligation bonds; Department of Energy, grant for design

PROCUREMENT:

Manufacturer—Consumat Systems, Inc.

Operator—Consumat Systems,  Inc. (3-year, renewable agreement)

Owner—City of Auburn

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:  Steam/Pioneer Plastics Division of LOF Plastics, Inc.

PROJECT CONTACT:   Leo La Rochelle
                      Engineering Department
                      45 Spring Street
                      Auburn City Hall
                      Auburn, Maine  04210
                      (207) 784-0145

 PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

 In early 1978 Auburn solicited proposals for a resource recovery system and selected a starved-air,
 modular incinerator system by Consumat Systems, Inc. Contract negotiations with Consumat were

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begun immediately for design, construction, startup, testing, and operation of the facility. Auburn
has been awarded a DOE grant covering some, as yet undetermined, portion of the cost of design.
Auburn is also considering the implementation of codisposal of sewage sludge with MSW. Full-scale
testing of techniques for dewatering, introducing, and burning the sludge in modular incinerators
is being carried out by Consumat. Some design modifications will be necessary for codisposal.

Negotiations are presently being carried out with Pioneer Plastics for a steam purchase contract and
with local communities for tipping agreements. The outcome of these two series of negotiations will
determine whether the city buys 3 or 4 Consumat units. City officials expect the negotiations will be
completed by April  1979, and construction will begin during the summer.
                                    AZUSA, CALIFORNIA
PROJECT TYPE:   Methane recovery from a landfill

STARTUP DATE:  April 1978

CAPITAL COSTS:  $1.2 million (Including systems for gas retrieval, cleansing and distribution)

FINANCING:  Private capital

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Azusa Land Reclamation Company; Locman and Associates

Operator—Azusa Land Reclamation Company

Owner—Azusa Land Reclamation Company

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

                                      Amount
                                     Recovered
Products         Characteristics      or Produced   Status              Markets

Methane gas     540 Btu/stdit'     750,000 if/day    Selling              Reichhold Chemical
                                                                        Co.

PROJECT CONTACTS:  Ralph Rule                             Frank Sheets
                      Azusa Land Reclamation Co.              Azusa Land Reclamation Co.
                      3055 Wilshire Boulevard                  1201 W. Gladstone
                      Los Angeles, California  90010             Azusa, California 91702
                      (213) 487-4930                            (213) 969-1614


PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

Methane recovery was begun in Azusa to reduce the threat of damage from migrating landfill gas.
Azusa Land Reclamation Company began recovering and flaring the gas in June 1977. By April 1978,
the company had begun cleaning and  selling the gas to Reichhold Chemical Company for use as a
boiler fuel in generating steam. Officials for Azusa Land Reclamation Company claim that the 750,000
cubic feet per  day of gas being drawn from the  landfill is only a fraction of the amount available.
Several additional customers for  the gas are located adjacent to the landfill site.

In addition to methane recovery from the completed portion of the landfill, Azusa Reclamation is also
carrying out materials recovery in the section of the landfill currently used for disposal. Recovery is
accomplished by 25 to 30 people, who handpick materials from piles of waste on the ground. Materials
recovered usually include paper,  tires, and metal and aluminum cans, but this will vary  with the
concentration  of the materials in the  waste stream and with prevailing market prices. Company
officials estimate that materials recovery reduces the waste stream 3 to 5 percent by weight.

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                                  BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
PROJECT TYPE:   Pyrolysis of processed waste to produce steam

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—1000 TPD

Actual Average Throughput—Temporarily shut down

STARTUP DATE:  February 1975

CAPITAL COSTS:  $24.8 million (Including recent modifications amounting to about $9 million)

FINANCING:   EPA grant,  $6  million; State loan,  $4 million; City funds, $6 million; Monsanto, $4
  million; Economic Development Administration grant, $4.8 million

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems, Inc.

Operator—City of Baltimore

Owner—City of Baltimore

Procurement Approach—Turnkey

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

                                       Amount
                                     Recovered
Products         Characteristics      or Produced   Status              Markets

Steam           415° F, 250  to        90,000 Ib/hr   Temporarily         Baltimore  Gas & Elec-
                   300 psig  (SAT)                     shut down           trie Company

PROJECT CONTACT:  Jacob Bochinski
                     Assistant Chief of  Solid Waste Disposal
                     1801 Annapolis Road
                     Baltimore,  Maryland 21230
                     (301) 396-3499

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating (temporarily shut down)

This facility was designed and constructed by Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems,  Inc., under a turnkey
arrangement for the city of Baltimore, Maryland.  However, normal operation has  not been possible
because of  several problems:  particulate emissions exceeding standards; mechanical problems with
shredded waste storage and kiln feeding; loss of  refractory lining in the kiln and  afterburner due to
slagging and temperature control problems; excessive vibration in the induced draft fan; and failure
of the residue drag conveyor.

The emissions problem is being overcome by replacing the low-energy scrubbers with  dry, electro-
static precipitators. Most  of  the other  problems have been  eliminated or minimized. The city of
Baltimore is responsible for the plant modifications, since Monsanto is no longer associated with the
project. All modifications were completed in early 1979. City officials expected to resume operation
of the plant in May  1979.

The city continued to operate the plant  while modifications were under way until  early  1978. During
the first 8 months of 1977, 60,000  tons of  solid waste were processed. From this  waste, 225 million
pounds of steam  were produced and sold to the Baltimore Gas & Electric Company  for $680,000.
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                             BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to recover materials and to produce RDF for use as fuel in off-
  site generation of steam/electricity

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—1200 TPD

Actual Average Throughput—750 TPD

STARTUP DATE:  January 1976

CAPITAL COSTS:  $10 million (1975)

FINANCING:  State of Maryland, 50%; Baltimore County, 50%

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Teledyne National

Operator—Teledyne National

Owner—Maryland Environmental Service (MES)

Procurement Approach—Hybrid (Contract with Teledyne National  for operation, but Maryland En-
  vironmental Service assumed risk for project)

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

                                   Amount
                                   Recovered
Products       Characteristics      or Produced   Status               Markets

RDF           Varies           200 TPD          RDF produced only   Test burns; landfill
                                                  for tests;  plant
                                                  normally shreds the
                                                  waste for landfill.

Ferrous         Baled           Approx. 18 TPD   Selling               Bethlehem Steel
  metals

PROJECT CONTACT:  Robert Pierce
                     Chief of Operations and Maintenance
                     Maryland Environmental Services
                     60 West Street
                     Annapolis, Maryland 21401
                     (301) 269-2916

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

This is a demonstration plant funded by Maryland Environmental Services (MES), a State agency.
MES contracted with Baltimore County to mutally construct and operate an RDF and materials  re-
covery facility. Teledyne National was selected by MES as the contractor  for design, construction,
and operation. One-half of the capital cost was provided by the State of Maryland as a reimbursable
grant, while the other half was provided by Baltimore County out of its annual capital budget. The
county provided the site for the facility and the landfill for disposal  of all residuals. The MES will
hold title to the facility and be responsible for its operation until the grant has been reimbursed by
the county. Teledyne has a contract with MES to operate the facility and is seeking markets for RDF
and other products.
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The net revenues from sales of RDF and other recovered materials will be shared by the State  of
Maryland (60 percent), Baltimore County (10 percent) and Teledyne (30 percent, to be reinvested  in
market and product development) until the State's reimbursable grant has been repaid. After repay-
ment of the grant, Baltimore County will receive 70 percent of the revenues and Teledyne, 30 percent.
As of February 1979, most of the RDF was being landfilled. Some RDF has been test burned at various
facilities, including local utilities, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and a cement plant (in cement
kilns). Ferrous metal is sold,  and glass and aluminum recovery are carried out on an experimental
basis.

Plans are  being made by Baltimore County to build a boiler unit to generate steam. Preliminary
design has been completed for the new facility to be located in eastern Baltimore County. This plant
will process waste and burn  RDF produced on site and at the currently operating facility.
                                BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS
                                      (Bayside Project)
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of processed (shredded) waste in a waterwall furnace to produce steam/
  electricity

DESIGN CAPACITY:  591 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  30 months after authorization to proceed

CAPITAL COST:  $18-20 million

FINANCING:  Industrial revenue bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Titan Environmental Services

Operator—Titan Environmental Services

Owner—Industrial Development Financing Authority

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam and electricity/Beverly Hospital, Massachusetts Electric Co., United Shoe Manufacturing Co.

Ferrous metals/Vulcan Metals Company

PROJECT CONTACT:   Richard L. Lewis
                      Vice President, Engineering and Construction
                      Titan Environmental Services
                      East 81, State Highway 4
                      Paramus, New  Jersey 07652
                      (201) 843-0040

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

This project is one of several which are being considered by communities of northeast Massachusetts.
The crucial step for this  and all other projects competing in the area is securing commitments to
participate from cities  and towns. This effort has been delayed,  in some cases, by the fact that  the
towns can authorize such commitments only at "town meetings," which take place once a year.

To assist the communities, EPA Region 1 contracted with a consulting firm to analyze and report on
the alternatives available to communities in northeast Massachusetts.


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                                BLYTHEVILLE, ARKANSAS
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a two-chamber, starved-air, modular
  incinerator to produce steam

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—50 TPD (4 modular units)

Actual Average Throughput—50-60 TPD

STARTUP DATE:   1975

CAPITAL COSTS:  $800,000 (1975)

FINANCING:  Municipal bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Manufacturer—Consumat Systems, Inc.

Operator—City of Blytheville

Owner—City of Blytheville

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

                                     Amount
                                    Recovered
Products         Characteristics     or Produced    Status            Markets

Steam                  —               —       System temporarily shut down

PROJECT CONTACT:  Mayor Tom A. Little
                    City Hall
                    Blytheville, Arkansas 72315
                    (501) 763-3602

PROJECT STATUS:  Operational (temporarily shut down)

In 1977 this system was producing and selling up to 24,000 Ibs of steam per 10-hour day, 5 days a
week. Although a market still exists for steam, none is being produced because of boiler problems.
These problems are thought to be the result of overloading and long operation (14 to 16 hours a day)
as the supply of waste has outgrown capacity. Consequently, the city is planning to acquire new
equipment in the next year to reach a capacity of 75-80 TPD. The new equipment will also have
automatic ash removal  capability to eliminate serious ash handling problems.  The system was
meeting state standards for incinerator particulate emissions.
                               BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS
 PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace to produce steam

 CAPACITY:

 Design Capacity—384 TPD

 Actual Average Throughput—250 TPD

 STARTUP DATE:  1971

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CAPITAL COSTS:  $2.5 million (1970)

FINANCING:  General obligation bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Camp Dresser & McKee Inc.

Operator—City of Braintree

Owner—City of Braintree

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
Products

Steam
Ch arac teris tics

406° F. 250
  psig (SAT)
  Amount
 Recovered
or Produced

1.44 million
  Ibs/day
Status

Selling half of
  steam produced
Markets

Weymouth Art Leather
  Company
PROJECT CONTACT:  Edward Courchene, Superintendent
                     Braintree Thermal Waste Reduction Center
                     Ivory Street
                     Braintree, Massachusetts 02184
                     (617) 843-6209

PROJECT STATUS:   Operating

In order to meet emissions standards, several modifications were made to equipment between May
1976 and August 1977. This work included changing the flow of gas through the plant and rebuilding
the two electrostatic precipitators. The plant met state emissions standards in August 1978.
                               BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to produce RDF for use as a  supplemental fuel in off-site
  generation of steam/electricity

DESIGN CAPACITY:  1800 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  December 1979

CAPITAL COST:  $53 million (1975) (Includes construction plus RDF transportation system, site dem-
  olition work, utility boiler modifications, capitalized interest, financing, and engineering costs)

FINANCING:  Industrial revenue bonds through Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (CRRA)

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Combustion Equipment Associates,  Inc., and Occidental Resource Recovery Associates
  (CEA-Oxy)

Operator—CEA-Oxy

Owner—CRRA

Procurement Approach—Full service

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PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

RDF (Eco-Fuel II, powdered RDF)/United Illuminating Co.

Ferrous metals/not determined

Glass/Glass Containers Corporation

Aluminum/Reynolds Metals Co.

PROJECT CONTACT:  Joseph L. Boren
                     V.P., Development of Municipal Services
                     CRRA
                     60 Washington Street
                     Suite 1305,
                     Hartford, Connecticut 06106
                     (203)549-6390

PROJECT STATUS:  Under construction

On March 31,  1976 CRRA signed a contract (fixed price for capital costs) with a joint venture corporation
made up of CEA and Occidental Resource Recovery Associates. The contract covered  construction
of the entire system including the main processing facility, six transfer stations, facilities for trans-
porting the RDF, and modifications of the utility boilers to burn the RDF. The contract also covered
marketing of all recovered products by the joint venture, with a guaranteed minimum revenue for
CRRA. Construction was 90 percent complete as of January 1979. CRRA expected six weeks of formal
testing to begin in March and full commercial operation to begin by the end of  1979.

The project  will process waste from the cities  of Darien, Easton, Fairfield, Greenwich, Monroe,
Stratford, Trumball, and Westport.  These cities have signed an interlocal agreement with CRRA to
dispose of their waste at the facility. CRRA, in turn, signed a contract with the joint venture. A total
of 1200 TPD has been committed to the project. Negotiations are taking place between CRRA and the
towns of Norwalk and Weston for additional waste.
                                  BURLINGTON, VERMONT
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste  in a two-chamber, starved-air, modular incin-
  erator to produce high-temperature hot water or steam

DESIGN CAPACITY:  200 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Not determined

CAPITAL COST:  Not determined

FINANCING:   General obligation bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Manufacturer—Not determined

Operator—City of Burlington

Owner —City of Burlington

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:   High-temperature hot water  or steam/University of Vermont

PROJECT CONTACT:  Jim Ogden
                     Supervisor of Streets

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                     P.O. Box 849
                     Burlington, Vermont 05402
                     (802) 864-7428

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

The city began investigating resource recovery in 1977 as a means of solving waste disposal and
power generation problems. Since that time the power supply problem has been solved, but the waste
disposal question remains. Two conceptual studies done ior the city have indicated that the use of
modular combustion units may be feasible. In February 1979,  the city issued an RFP for a formal
feasibility study, to be used in making a go/no-go decision on the project. The feasibility study will
be due in October  1979. A bond issue  has been passed to provide financing should city officials
decide to proceed.


                                   CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS
                                  (Northwest Incinerator)
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace to produce steam

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—1600 TPD (Four 400-TPD boilers)

Actual Average Throughput—1200 TPD

STARTUP DATE:  1971

CAPITAL COSTS:  $23 million (1970) (Excluding land)

FINANCING:   General obligation bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Metcalf & Eddy, Inc.

Operator—City of Chicago

Owner—City of Chicago

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

                                    Amount
                                    Recovered
Products         Characteristics   or Produced     Status              Markets

Steam           250 psig (SAT)     330,000 Ibs/hr    In-house use;        Brach Candy Co.
                                                    contract to sell
                                                    a portion

Ferrous metals   Incinerated       Approx. 70 TPD   Landfilling                 —

PROJECT CONTACT:  Emil Nigro
                     Supervision Engineer
                     Department of Streets and Sanitation
                     Room 704
                     City Hall
                     Chicago, Illinois 60602
                     (312) 744-3181

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PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

The Chicago Northwest Incinerator was the first waterwall facility in North America to include chute-
to-stack components designed by Josef Martin Company (Zurich, Switzerland), and its U.S. licensee,
UOP Inc. The facility has four boilers, three of which are fired continuously. The fourth is kept in
reserve.

Twenty percent of the steam generated by this facility is used to drive turbines for in-house power.
The remaining 80 percent is available for sale. A contract  has been signed between the city and
Brach Candy Company for purchase of some of the available steam, A steam line is presently under
construction.


                                   CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
                     (Southwest Supplementary Fuel Processing Facility)
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of  waste to  produce RDF for  use as  a  supplemental fuel in off-site
  generation of steam/electricity

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—1000 TPD (Two 1000-TPD lines operating alternately)

Actual Average Throughput—500 TPD

STARTUP DATE:   March 1977

CAPITAL COSTS:  $16 million (1975)  (Excluding land and a $4.5 million RDF handling facility at
  utility)

FINANCING:  General obligation bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Ralph M. Parsons Company; Consoer, Townsend & Associates

Operator—City of Chicago

Owner—City of Chicago

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

                                      Amount
                                     Recovered
Products         Characteristics     or Produced        Status          Markets

RDF              Fluff             77% of                Selling         Commonwealth
                                   throughput                          Edison Co.

Ferrous metals    Coarsely         30 TPD               Selling         REG Associates
                   shredded, less
                   than 6 inches

PROJECT CONTACT:  Emil Nigro
                     Supervising Engineer
                     Department of Streets and  Sanitation
                     Room 704
                     City Hall
                     Chicago, Illinois 60602
                     (312) 744-3181
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PROJECT STATUS:  Operating (shakedown)

This plant produces RDF for Commonwealth Edison Company's Crawford Power Station. The RDF
is pneumatically conveyed to the power station. Commonwealth is responsible for operating and
maintaining the facilities for receiving, storing, and firing the RDF. The city funded the cost of these
facilities and of the boiler  modifications.

The RDF plant has two identical, 1000-TPD processing lines which will be operated on alternate days.
This arrangement will allow for regular maintenance, excess capacity to cover increases in the waste
supply, and redundancy in case of breakdown.
                                    COLUMBUS, OHIO
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to produce RDF for use as a supplemental fuel in generating
  steam/electricity

DESIGN CAPACITY:  Approximately 1200 TPD received for processing

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Waste processing  1974; energy generation, late 1981

CAPITAL COST:  $118  million (Entire  energy generation and transfer station system,  including
  construction, engineering fees, and interest)

FINANCING:  General obligation bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Alden E. Stilson and Associates

Operator—City of Columbus

Owner—City of Columbus

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Electricity/City of Columbus

Ferrous metals/not determined

PROJECT CONTACTS:  Bob Parkinson
                      Director of Public Services
                      (614) 222-8290
                      Henry Bell
                      Electricity Superintendent
                      (614) 222-8371
                      City Hall
                      90 West Broad Street
                      Columbus, Ohio 43215


PROJECT STATUS:  Waste processing, operational; energy generation, advanced planning

In 1974 the city of Columbus began operating three large transfer stations, each equipped with a 60-
TPH Jeffrey  shredder. Presently, shredded waste from these transfer stations is being  landfilled.
Plans have been made, and $40 million in equipment has been ordered, for a 90-megawatt power
plant in Columbus to burn coal and shredded waste (RDF). A fourth shredding/transfer station will
also be constructed on the site of the power plant.

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 The city of Columbus operates an electricity distribution system which supplies power to 9000 cus-
 tomers and all city streetlights. The city is currently purchasing power to supply this system. When
 the co-fired power plant begins operation, it will supply electricity to the city's distribution system.

 Since the new power plant will be co-fired, changes in burn mixture of RDF and coal can be made
 to adjust for fluctuations in the supply of waste throughout the year. The city is also considering the
 feasibility of co-firing sewage sludge with RDF and coal.

 The city is responsible  for collection of residential waste within the city limits. Officials expect to
 adjust the tipping fee at  the  facility to attract private haulers from suburban areas. The loss in
 revenue from lower  tipping fees  will be made up by the substantial reduction in landfill disposal
 costs which the plant will provide for the city.

 A legal  problem has developed  between  Columbus and the Ohio Power  Siting Commission with
 regard to the necessity for the co-fired power plant. A case will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court
 on this matter, and a decision was expected in early summer 1979.
                                  CROSSVILLE, TENNESSEE
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of processed waste in a two-chamber, starved-air, modular incinerator
  to produce steam

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—60 TPD (Two 30-TPD systems)

Actual Average Throughput—60-70 TPD

STARTUP DATE:   May 1978

CAPITAL COSTS:  $800,000 (Including the building, equipment, and extensive modifications)

FINANCING:   Private capital

PROCUREMENT:

Manufacturer—Environmental Control Products, Inc.

Operator—Environmental Services Corp.

Owner—Environmental Services Corp.

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

                                       Amount
                                      Recovered
Products          Characteristics      or Produced   Status              Markets

Steam            135 psig, SAT      15,000 Ib/hr      Contract to sell      Crossville   Rubber
                                                                         Products

PROJECT CONTRACT:  Nelson Walker
                       President
                       Environmental  Services Corp.
                       P.O. Box 765
                       Crossville, Tennessee 38555
                       (615) 484-7800 or 484-7673

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

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Under contract with the city of Crossville, Environmental Services Corporation (ESC) operates the
modular combustion system and the city-county landfill for disposal of residue. The system consists
of shredding ahead of combustion with automatic ash removal. Extensive equipment modifications
have been made to accommodate a waste stream which consists of about one-quarter rubber scrap
and an unusually high percentage of glass.

Both gas and oil are used to fire the units, but plant officials claim to have cut fuel use drastically.
Incineration begins on Sunday night with ignition of the burners in the lower chamber of the units.
These burners remain on, plant officials say, for an average of 18 minutes, or  until the temperature
in the chamber reaches 800 degrees F. The upper-chamber burners stay on only until the temperature
reaches 1200 degrees F, which takes  an average of 47 minutes. Then,  with  overlapping of shifts
throughout the week, the units can be operated continuously without additional auxiliary fuel con-
sumption. The system also conserves  fuel by employing electric ignition, rather than continuously
burning pilot lights.
                                 DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
PROJECT TYPE:  Materials recovery using a wet pulping process and production of RDF for use as
  a supplemental fuel in on-site generation of steam/electricity

DESIGN CAPACITY:  3500 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  July 1981

CAPITAL COST:   $138 million (not including turbogenerators, costing $20 million)

FINANCING:  Florida State Pollution Control Bonds (General obligation)

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Resources Recovery Dade County,  Inc. (RRDC)

Operator—RRDC

Owner—Dade County

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCT/MARKETS:

Steam/Florida Power & Light Company

Ferrous metals/Metal Cleaning and Processing (Milwaukee)

Aluminum/Alcoa

Glass/Owens-Illinois

PROJECT CONTRACT: Thomas Henderson
                      Chief, Solid Waste Disposal
                      Dade County Public Works Dept.
                      909 Southeast 1st Avenue
                      Miami,  Florida 33131
                      (305) 579-3997

PROJECT STATUS:  Under construction

Construction and operation of this facility is being managed by Resources Recovery Dade County,
Inc., a subsidiary of Parsons and Whittemore, Inc. The facility will recover materials and produce

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RDF using a wet pulping process similar to that used in the Franklin, Ohio, demonstration project.
RDF produced at the plant will be burned in four spreader-stoker boiler units. The steam which is
produced  will be piped  to an adjacent facility where it will be used to generate electricity. This
generating facility is being constructed and will be operated by Florida Power & Light Company.

Dade County is sharing  project risks by agreeing to subsidize RRDC if annual steam revenues fall
short of $6.8 million under  specific conditions. Any steam revenues over $6.8 million  are to be split
evenly by Dade County and RRDC. RRDC has the right to all revenues from the sale of recovered
materials.

When construction is completed, RRDC is scheduled to receive 60 percent of the cost of construction.
Further payment will be made to RRDC in amounts  equal to the percentage of design  capacity at
which the plant is shown to operate while meeting performance requirements.

Ground breaking took  place on December 17, 1978. As of March 1979, site preparation was  being
concluded.

This project was designed on the basis  of information gathered at the successful  pilot plant at
Franklin, Ohio, which  was designed and operated by Black Clawson Co., a subsidiary of Parsons
& Whittemore Inc. The Franklin plant, an EPA demonstration project, was permanently shut down
on March  31,  1979, because it could not be operated economically at the 50-TPD scale  on which it
was built.
                                   DETROIT, MICHIGAN
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to produce RDF for use as a primary fuel in generating steam
  (on-site) and electricity (off-site)

DESIGN CAPACITY:  3000 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Early 1983

CAPITAL COST:  Not determined

FINANCING:  Not determined

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Combustion Engineering, Inc.

Operator—Joint venture between Combustion Engineering Inc. and Waste Resources Corp.

Owner—Combustion Engineering Inc., or City of Detroit, not determined

Procurement Approach—Full  service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/Detroit Edison Company

Electricity/not determined

Ferrous metals/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT: Michael Brinker
                    Government Analyst
                    Detroit Environmental Maintenance and Protection Department
                    Room  513

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                     City-County Building
                     Detroit, Michigan 48226
                     (313) 224-3932

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

The city of Detroit issued an RFP for design, construction, and operation of this project in 1976. A
joint venture between Combustion Engineering Inc. and Waste Resources Corporation was selected
as the full service contractor in  June 1977. The  parties  are currently negotiating  to establish the
assignment of risk and to work out the  details of the financial aspects of the project. Work on the
environmental impact statement for the  project is also under way.

As presently conceived, the facility will  have two processing lines and three boiler units. The proc-
essing lines will both be operated for two daily shifts, five days a week. Two of the three boilers will
be generating steam continuously, seven days a week. A memorandum of understanding has been
signed by the joint venture and Detroit Edison Co. for the  sale of steam to be used in Detroit Edison's
central steam loop.

No waste supply problems are anticipated since  the city of Detroit is responsible for collection. The
contracts which the city has with private haulers include provisions that deliveries to transfer agents
will stop as soon as the resource recovery facility opens. A sufficient amount of waste is generated
in Detroit to operate the facility at planned capacity.
                                     DUBUQUE, IOWA
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a rotary (waterwall) combustor to produce
  steam

DESIGN CAPACITY:  250 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  May 1981

CAPITAL COST: Approximately $8 million (equipment only); $11 million upper limit on total project

FINANCING:   General obligation or revenue bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Sanders & Thomas, Inc.

Operator—Not determined

Owner—Dubuque Metropolitan Area Solid Waste Agency

Procurement Approach—Turnkey (with Sanders & Thomas, Inc. as construction manager)

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/Dubuque Packing Company

Ferrous metals/Local scrap dealer

PROJECT CONTACT:   Blake Neville
                      Project Manager
                      Sanders & Thomas, Inc.
                      1720 West End Avenue
                      Suite 405
                      Nashville, Tennessee 37203
                      (615) 320-0642

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PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

The rotary combustor technology, which is relatively new to U.S. application, was first implemented
in Japan.  It employs a cylindrical, inclined, rotating "basket" made up of water tubes, running
lengthwise along the basket. The tubes are separated by two-inch steel plates which have air intake
holes in them. Waste is deposited at the elevated end of the basket, tumbles through with the rotating
action and is burned. The residue exits to a quenching tank at the lower end of the basket. Hence,
rotation not only conveys the waste, but also agitates it to increase combustion. The rotary combustor
system, when combined with a boiler unit, has been shown to have a thermal effeciency of 80 percent.
Intended capacity determines the length  and diameter of the basket.

The system being planned for Dubuque includes the rotary combustor and ancillary equipment of
standard design. Bids were due in April  1979 on  the ten major pieces of equipment, which account
for 50 percent of the total cost of the project. These bids will be used to determine the final economics
of the project, including the tipping fee and the selling price for the steam.

The Dubuque Metropolitan Area Solid Waste Agency is currently responsible for waste collection and
expects no problem in directing waste to  the facility. The Dubuque Packing Company has agreed to
take all steam that the facility produces.
                                   DULUTH, MINNESOTA
PROJECT TYPE:  Codisposal—Combustion of processed municipal solid waste and sewage sludge
  in a fluidized bed incinerator with waste heat recovery to produce steam

DESIGN CAPACITY:  400 TPD of MSW and 340 wet TPD sludge

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  June 1979

CAPITAL COST:   $20 million (Includes all costs for co-incineration facility)

FINANCING:  75% EPA grant, 15% State grant, 10% municipal bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Consoer, Townsend & Associates

Operator—Western Lake Superior Sanitary District

Owner—Western Lake Superior Sanitary District

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/In-house use

Ferrous metals/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  John Klaers
                     Manager of Planning
                     Western Lake Superior Sanitary District
                     27th Avenue West and The Waterfront
                     Duluth, Minnesota 55806
                     (218) 722-3336

PROJECT STATUS: Under construction

This project includes the construction of a facility to process and co-incinerate solid waste with

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vacuum filtered sewage sludge. Sewage sludge from a presently operating wastewater treatment
plant will be dewatered to 20 percent solids. Municipal solid waste will go through primary shredding,
air classification, and secondary shredding. The mixture will be burned in two fluidized bed furnaces.
Test burns are scheduled to take place in May 1979, and the facility is  expected to begin processing
waste in June 1979.
                          EAST BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to produce RDF for use as a supplemental fuel in off-site
  generation of steam/electricity

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity: 160 TPD

Actual Average Throughput—Not applicable, operation is intermittent

STARTUP DATE:  Spring 1977

CAPITAL COSTS:  $12 million

FINANCING:  Private capital

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Combustion Equipment Associates, Inc. (CEA)

Operator—CEA

Owner—CEA

Procurement Approach—Not applicable

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
                                    Amount
                                   Recovered
Products     Characteristics         or Produced       Status            Markets

RDF         Powder,  dry, 8-    Not  applicable     Not applicable    Not applicable
(Eco-Fuel)      10%  ash,  2%      (Demonstration
               moisture, 7500-      facility)
               7800 Btu/lb


 PROJECT CONTACT:   M.G. Magoulas
                      V.P., Facilities Management
                      Combustion Equipment Associates, Inc.
                      555 Madison Avenue
                      New York, New York  10022
                      (212) 980-3700

 PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

 This is a test facility to demonstrate CEA's proprietary process to produce powder RDF. The process
 is being continually modified to upgrade the RDF quality as experience dictates. RDF from this facility
 has been fired successfully as a supplement to oil in a steam plant.


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                                  GALLATIN, TENNESSEE
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a rotary (waterwall) combustor to produce
  steam/electricity

DESIGN CAPACITY:  150 TPD (Two 75-TPD units)

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Mid-1981

CAPITAL COST:  $7 million, total ($5.8 million for construction, including land, building, and equip-
  ment)

FINANCING:  Revenue bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Sanders & Thomas, Inc.

Operator—An Authority to be established by the cities of Gallatin and Hendersonville, and Sumner
  County, Tennessee

Owner—Authority

Procurement Approach—Turnkey (with Sanders & Thomas as construction manager)

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/Donnelly Printing Company; General Fireproof ing, Inc.; Andrews Wire, Inc.

Electricity/Tennessee Valley Authority

PROJECT CONTACT:  Glenn Swinehart
                     Vice President
                     Director of Energy Systems
                     Sanders & Thomas, Inc.
                     1720 West End Avenue
                     Suite 405
                     Nashville, Tennessee 37203
                     (615) 320-0642

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

The rotary combustor technology, which is relatively new to U.S. application, was first implemented
in Japan. It employs a cylindrical, inclined,  rotating "basket" made up of water tubes, running
lengthwise along the basket. The tubes are separated by two-inch steel plates which have air intake
holes in them. Waste is deposited at the elevated end of the basket, tumbles through with the rotating
action and is burned. The residue exits to a quenching tank at the lower end of the basket. Hence,
rotation not only conveys  the waste, but also agitates it to increase combustion. The rotary combustor
system, when combined with a boiler unit, has been shown to have a thermal efficiency of 80 percent.
Intended capacity determines the length and diameter of the basket.

The two boiler units will be fired for twelve days every two weeks, with a staggered, two-day shutdown
period for each boiler to allow for maintenance and cleanout. When boiler units are operating, the
system will generate approximately 45,000 pounds of steam per hour. The steam will be sent through
turbogenerators to generate electricity,  which will be sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority. This
process will reduce the pressure of the steam from about 400 psig  to about 200 psig. The 200 psig
steam will be sold to local industries.

The system being planned for Gallatin  includes the  rotary combustor and ancillary equipment of
standard design. Bids were due in April 1979,  on the major pieces of equipment. These bids will be

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used to determine the final economics of the project, including the tipping fee and the selling price
for the steam and electricity.

Plans are being made to establish an authority for operating and owning the facility. The authority
would be made up of the cities of Gallatin and Hendersonville, and Sumner County. Waste supply
for the facility posed a problem for the project, since cities in the county were using various arrange-
ments for  waste collections. Twenty-three haulers operate in the county. Consequently,  Sumner
County enacted a law which brought waste disposal under its control.


                              GENESEE TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a two-chamber, starved-air, modular incin-
  erator to produce steam/electricity

DESIGN CAPACITY:  100 TPD (Two 50-TPD units)

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  June 1979

CAPITAL COST:   $2.3 million (Total cost, including co-generation equipment)

FINANCING:  Industrial revenue bonds (Michigan State Building Authority Act)

PROCUREMENT:

Manufacturer—Consumat Systems, Inc.

Operator—Not determined

Owner—Genesee Township

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/not determined

Electricity/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  Hanuman Marur
                     Township Engineer
                     Charter Township of Genesee
                     7244 N.  Genesee Road
                     Genesee, Michigan 48437
                     (313) 640-2000

PROJECT STATUS:  Under construction

Construction of this facility is 70 percent complete and startup is scheduled for June 1979. The plant
will be  located in an industrial park which has both steam and  electricity  distribution systems.
Township officials have added plans for electricity generation to the project, but have not yet found
financing  for this feature. They are contacting various agencies  including  the Michigan Energy
Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy for possible funding.

The township has a contract with a private hauler for waste collection, transportation, and disposal
in a landfill. This contract expires on June 1, 1979. The township is currently taking bids for a new
contract which will include collection of waste and transportation to the resource recovery plant.
                                  GLEN COVE, NEW YORK
PROJECT TYPE:  Codisposal—Combustion of unprocessed waste and vacuum filtered sewage sludge
  in a refractory wall furnace with a waste heat boiler to produce steam

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DESIGN CAPACITY:  225 TPD of MSW and 25 TPD municipal sewage sludge (20% solids)

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Mass burning unit and sewage plant, 1981

CAPITAL COST:  Mass burning unit,  approximately $8 million; sewage plant, $12 million

FINANCING:  Mass burning unit, not determined; sewage plant, city funds with State and Federal
  grants

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Joint venture: William F. Cosulich and W. F. Franck

Operator—City  of Glen Cove

Owner—City of Glen Cove

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCT/MARKETS:  Electricity for use at sewage plant

PROJECT CONTACT:  Ernest Pascucci
                     Commissioner
                     Department of Public Works
                     City Hall, Bridge Street
                     Glen Cove, New York 11542
                     (516) 676-2000 Ext. 205

PROJECT STATUS:  Mass burning unit,  advance planning; sewage plant, under construction

This codisposal facility will involve a continuous feed, stoker-fired furnace to burn MSW with sewage
sludge which has been  vacuum filtered to 20 percent solids.  The  sludge will be metered into the
furnace in such a way that it will remain on top of the bed of refuse during combustion.

The sewage treatment plant has been under construction for a year and a half. Officials for the project
expect to solicit bids for construction of the incinerator unit in early summer 1979.



                               GROVETON, NEW HAMPSHIRE
PROJECT  TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a two-chamber, starved-air,  modular
  incinerator to produce steam

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—24 TPD

Actual Average Throughput—6 to 11 TPD

STARTUP DATE:  October 1975

CAPITAL COSTS:  $250,000(1975)

FINANCING:  Private capital

PROCUREMENT:

Manufacturer—Environmental Control Products, Inc. (incinerator); Eclipse Boilers (boiler unit)

Operator—Groveton Paper Mill (Diamond International Corporation)

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Owner—Groveton Paper Mill, Diamond International Corporation.

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

                                     Amount
                                    Recovered
Products        Characteristics     or Produced   Status             Markets

Steam           345° F,  125 psig    2000 Ibs/hr    Used to satisfy part of in-house steam
                  (SAT)                            requirements

PROJECT CONTACT:  Norman Charleston
                    Superintendent, Steam and Power
                    Groveton Paper Mill
                    Groveton, New Hampshire 03582
                    (603) 636-1154

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

This modular combustion unit is in operation 24 hours a day,  six days a week, burning all of the
paper mill's waste for five days and all of the city's municipal waste one day. Company officials at
the paper mill are primarily concerned with using the unit to dispose of waste, rather than to produce
steam. Steam production could be increased by burning more auxilliary fuel with the waste.
                                   HAMPTON, VIRGINIA
                                 (NASA, USAF, Hampton)
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace to produce steam

DESIGN CAPACITY:  200 TPD (Two 100-TPD boilers)

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE: June 1980

CAPITAL COST:  $10 million

FINANCING:  Municipal bonds, 70%; USAF and NASA, 30%

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—J. M. Kenith Company

Operator—City of Hampton

Owner—Leased to Hampton by joint venture (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S.
  Air Force, and Hampton)

Procurement Approach—J. M. Kenith to design, construct, start up, and test for joint venture

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/NASA-Langley facilities for heating, cooling, and  research needs

PROJECT CONTACT:  Leo P. Daspit
                     Project Manager
                     NASA-Langley Research Center
                     Mail Stop 437
                     Hampton, Virginia 23665
                     (804)  827-2283

PROJECT STATUS:   Under construction

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 The city of Hampton, NASA and the USAF have combined to form a joint venture for this project. All
 three parties are contributing funds. The contract for design construction, startup, and testing was
 signed with J. M. Kenith Co. on January 31, 1978. When the facility is ready for operation, it will be
 leased by the joint venture to the city of Hampton. It will be operated seven days a week, with 175
 TPD of waste from the city and 25 TPD from the Federal installations.

 As of February 1979, engineering design was 95 percent complete, and major equipment had been
 ordered. Construction of the building to house the system was well under way.
                               HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
PROJECT TYPE:  Codisposal—Combustion of unprocessed municipal solid waste and sewage sludge
  in a waterwall furnace to produce steam

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—720 TPD MSW and 14 dry TPD sludge

Actual Average. Throughput—500 TPD MSW; sludge combustion system, under construction

STARTUP DATE:  October 1972; sludge combustion system, November 1979

CAPITAL COSTS:  $8.3 million (1972) (Not including recent modifications)

FINANCING:   Revenue bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Gannett Fleming Corddry and Carpenter, Inc.

Operator—City of Harrisburg

Owner—City of Harrisburg

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
Products

Steam
Characteristics

460° F, 240  psig
  (SAT)
   Amount
  Recovered
 or Produced

150,000 Ibs/hr
      Status        Markets

      Selling       Pennsylvania Power
                     & Light Company

In-house use for heating and sludge drying
PROJECT CONTACT:  Jack Karper
                     Deputy Director of Public Works
                     423 Walnut Street
                     Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101
                     (717)255-3118

PROJECT STATUS:   MSW incineration, operating; sludge drying and combustion system, under con-
  struction

This facility employs chute-to-stack, mass-burning technology supplied by Josef Martin Company
(Zurich, Switzerland) and UOP Inc. Modifications have been under way at the plant for over a year
to improve steam production, to construct a new steam line, and to provide for drying and combustion

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of sewage sludge. The new two-mile steam line was installed  to tie the plant into an existing
downtown steam loop, which is operated by the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company.  This con-
struction was completed, and sales of steam started in late 1978.

A sludge  combustion system is presently under construction. Sludge at five percent solids will be
pumped to the plant where it will be dewatered in vacuum filters to 20 percent solids and then dried
to 10 percent moisture in a steam-heated "porcupine" dryer. The dry sludge will be introduced into
the furnace and burned. Some modifications are being made to the waterwall furnace for introducing
the dry sludge.

In the  past year project officials have made efforts  to increase the supply of waste to the facility.
Their efforts have included contacting surrounding communities and negotiating with private haulers
in Harrisburg. Throughput was approximately 377 TPD in 1977, 485 TPD in 1978,  and officials hope
it will  reach 575 TPD by the end of 1979.
                                  HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK

PROJECT TYPE:   Processing of waste (wet pulping and separation) to produce RDF for use as a
  primary fuel in on-site generation of steam/electricity

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—2000 TPD

Actual Average Throughput—1300 TPD, still in shakedown

STARTUP DATE:  September 1978

CAPITAL COSTS:  $90 million (Not including cost of turbogenerators)

FINANCING:  Industrial development revenue bonds and private financing

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Parsons & Whittemore Inc.

Operator—Hempstead Resource Recovery Corporation  (HRRC)

Owner—HRRC

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
Produces

Steam/Electricity

Ferrous metals


Aluminum



Glass
Ch arcrc t eris tics
Amount
Recovered
or Produced
40 megawatts
40,000 TPY
(planned)
Status
Selling
Contract
Color sorted
                 Not determined
23,000 TPY
  (planned)
                   Contract
Contract
                                  Markers

                                  Long Island Lighting Co.

                                  Scrap dealer
Reynolds Metals Co.; and
  Aluminum Company of
  America (Alcoa)

Glass Containers
  Corporation
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PROJECT CONTACT:  Peter Alevra
                     P.O. Box 4014
                     Roosevelt Field Station
                     Garden City East, New York 11530
                     (212) 561-8050

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating (shakedown)

A contract was signed on December 12, 1974, between the city of Hempstead and Hempstead Resource
Recovery Corporation, a subsidiary of Parsons & Whittemore Inc. The contract stipulates that the City
will "put or pay" to the recovery system at least 6000 tons of solid waste per week. The contract also
requires that the facility be able to process  11,000 tons per week with a maximum of three percent
residue by volume.

The facility began operation in September 1978, and as of early 1979 has reached one-half capacity.
HRRC officials expect the plant to  reach full capacity in May 1979.

This project was designed on the basis of information gathered  at the successful pilot plant at
Franklin, Ohio, which was designed and operated by Black Clawson Co., a subsidiary of Parsons
& Whittemore  Inc. The Franklin plant, an EPA demonstration project, was permanently  shut down
on March  31, 1979, because it could not be operated economically  at the 50-TPD scale on which it
was built.
                                    LAKELAND, FLORIDA
PROJECT TYPE:   Processing of waste to produce RDF  for use as a supplemental fuel in on-site
  generation of steam/electricity

DESIGN CAPACITY:  300 TPD (One eight-hour shift per day)

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  October 1981

CAPITAL COST:   $186 million (Entire project, including processing and boiler facilities,  pollution
  control equipment, and a small portion of land for the system)

FINANCING:  Municipal general obligation bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—C. T. Main, Inc.

Operator—City of Lakeland

Owner—Jointly owned, City of Lakeland and Orlando Utilities Commission

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Electricity/Orlando Utilities Commission

Ferrous metals/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  Claude Hiers
                     Superintendent of Industrial Engineering and Business Affairs
                     City of Lakeland
                     Box 368
                     Lakeland, Florida 33802
                     (813)682-1121

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PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

This project involves construction of both a waste processing plant and a boiler unit for burning RDF
with coal. As of March 1979, the majority of engineering design work had been completed, and the
city was making plans to purchase equipment for the facility.  Sale of bonds to finance the project
was scheduled for mid-March.

The city expects few problems with waste stream control. Over  one-half of the population of greater
Lakeland lives within the city  limits, where waste collection  is the responsibility of the city. In
addition,  the resource recovery facility will lure many private  haulers away from landfill disposal
because it offers shorter transportation distances.
                                 LANE COUNTY, OREGON
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to produce RDF for use as a supplemental fuel in off-site
  generation of steam/electricity

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—500 TPD

Actual Average Throughput—Minimal

STARTUP DATE:   Early 1979

CAPITAL COST:   $2.1 million (Not including additional work supplied by system contractor)

FINANCING:  Municipal general obligation bonds and State grant

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Allis-Chalmers Corp.

Operator—Western Waste Corp.

Owner—Lane County

Procurement Approach—Turnkey

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
                                      Amount
                                     Recovered
Products         Characteristics      or Produced     Status

RDF             Less than 2 inches   Not determined    Shakedown

Ferrous metals    Shredded         Not determined    Shakedown
Markets

Not determined

Not determined
PROJECT CONTACT:  Craig Starr
                     Director of Solid Waste Management Division
                     Lane County
                     125 East 8th Avenue
                     Eugene, Oregon 97401
                     (503)687-4119

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating (shakedown)

Construction at this facility is essentially complete, and the shakedown phase has begun. However,
several problems have prevented continuous operation. The major problem involves the air classi-
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fication system in that the original design using a closed-loop, recirculating-air approach has not
been effective.  Allis-Chalmers Corp.  the turnkey contractor, indicates that the  system  should  be
redesigned to vent exhaust air through a bag house. County officials are opposed to this  remedy.
The facility will not be operated to any significant extent until this problem is resolved.

As of April 1979, no market had been secured for the RDF which the plant is to produce. The University
of Oregon at Eugene has expressed some interest in running test burns of the RDF in its boilers.

Waste collection in Lane County is carried out by private haulers. However, because the county owns
and operates transfer stations and the landfill, disposal has been the county's responsibility  by
tradition. Therefore, county officials expect no problems with supplying waste to the facility.
                                 LEWISBURG, TENNESSEE
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a refractory wall furnace with waste heat
  boilers to recover steam

DESIGN CAPACITY:  60 TPD (8 to 10 hours of operation per day)

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  July 1979

CAPITAL COST:  $1.75 million (Excluding land)

FINANCING:  General obligation bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—CICO Resource Recovery, Inc.

Operator—City of Lewisburg

Owner—City of Lewisburg

Procurement Approach—-A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/Heil-Quaker Corp.

PROJECT CONTACT:  J. L. Moss, Jr.
                     City Manager
                     City Administration Building
                     505 Ellington Parkway
                     Lewisburg, Tennessee 37091
                     (615) 359-1544

PROJECT STATUS:  Under construction

Construction is nearly complete on this refractory furnace system in Lewisburg. Waste will be burned
in suspension in a  20 by 20 foot chamber. Combustion is to be self-sustaining; no auxiliary fuel will
be required. Heat will be recovered in a waste heat boiler.

The city of Lewisburg is responsible for waste collection  within the city limits. City officials are
expecting to attract waste from other communities in the county.
                                LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
PROJECT TYPE:  Methane recovery from a landfill

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EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  June 1979, for delivery of gas to city power plant

CAPITAL COST:  $1.75 million

FINANCING:  Municipal funds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—City of Los Angeles

Operator—City of Los Angeles

Owner—City of Los Angeles

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Methane/Los Angeles, Department of Water and Power

PROJECT CONTACT:  John C. Peck
                     Sanitary Engineering Assistant
                     Department of Public Works
                     Room  1410
                     Los Angeles City Hall East
                     Los Angeles, California 90012
                     (213) 485-5347

PROJECT STATUS:   Under construction

Equipment to control migration of landfill gas has been in place and operating since 1970 at the
Sheldon-Arleta landfill in Los Angeles. Approximately 750 cubic feet per minute of raw landfill gas
has been flared.  The gas utilization project now under construction will recover 1000 cubic feet per
minute of raw gas containing 500 to 550 Btu per standard cubic foot. This gas will be burned in the
city-operated power plant, which is two miles from the landfill.


                                  MADISON, WISCONSIN

PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to produce RDF for use as a supplemental fuel in off-site
  generation of steam/electricity

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—400 TPD

Actual Average Throughput—200 TPD

STARTUP DATE:  January 1979

CAPITAL COSTS:  $2.4 million (Including construction, engineering, and financing costs; excluding
  $900,000 for RDF handling  facility at utility)

FINANCING:  General obligation bonds and municipal capital funds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—City of Madison

Operator—City of Madison

Owner—City of  Madison

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Procurement Approach—Not applicable

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
Products

RDF
                     Amount
                    Recovered
Characteristics     or Produced
90% less than %
  inch
Ferrous metals    Coarsely shredded
120 TPD
                        10TPD
Status

Selling


Selling
Markets

Madison Gas &
  Electric Company

Wisconsin Metals and
  Chemicals Co
PROJECT CONTACT:  Gary Boley
                     Principal Civil Engineer
                     City-County Building, Room 115
                     Madison, Wisconsin 53709
                     (608) 266-4091

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating (shakedown)

The city of Madison acted as general contractor for the design and construction of this facility, as
well as the RDF handling facility at Madison Gas & Electric Company's power station. Although this
placed more risk on the city,  it gave the city more control over the project. The processing of waste
includes primary shredding,  magnetic separation, screening, secondary shredding, and air
classification.

Along with operating a resource recovery facility, the city of Madison carries out a strong program
in source separation. This program provides for the separate collection of newspaper and results in
a waste stream volume reduction of about five percent.
                                 MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of  waste to produce RDF for use as a supplemental fuel in off-site
  generation of steam/electricity

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—1200 TPD

Actual Average Throughput—900 TPD

STARTUP DATE:   Early 1977

CAPITAL COSTS:  Processing facility—$21  million (1975). (Not including land or $4 million for RDF
  handling facilities and boiler modifications at power plant)

FINANCING:  Private  capital

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—American Can Company

Operator—American Can Company

Owner—American Can Company

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

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Products

RDF
Characteristics

Fluff; 90% is less
  than % inch;
  5000 Btu/lb
Ferrous metal     Shredded
Aluminum
Shredded
Glass aggregate  Not applicable
  Amount
 Recovered
or Produced

550 to 650 TPD
                   15TPD
Not available
                   Not available
Status

Selling



Selling


Shakedown

Shakedown
Markets

Wisconsin Electric
  Power Co.
Wisconsin Metals &
  Chemicals Co.

Not available

Not available
PROJECT CONTACT:  Dr. George Mallan
                     Director of Operations and Technology
                     (203) 622-7545
                     E. J. Greber
                     Director of Sales and Marketing
                     (203) 622-7549
                     Americology, Recovery Systems Division
                     American Can Company
                     Greenwich Office Park,  No. 8
                     Greenwich, Connecticut 06830

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating (shakedown)

In January 1975, a contract was signed between the city of Milwaukee, American Can Company and
Wisconsin Electric Power Company in which the  utility agreed to purchase RDF from a facility to be
built and operated by the Americology Division of American Can Company. American Can Company's
responsibility to operate transfer stations and dispose of Milwaukee's solid waste commenced in
January 1976.

After an explosion at the plant on December 28,  1978, American Can Company installed extensive
additional safety features, and the plant,  in mid-March  1979, is operating. A steel reflector barrier
was erected between the shredder enclosure and  the picking platform for added protection of picking
personnel.
                               MONROE COUNTY, NEW YORK
 PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of  waste to recover  materials and  to  produce RDF for use  as a
    supplemental fuel in generating steam/electricity

 DESIGN CAPACITY:  2000 TPD

 EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  June 1979

 CAPITAL COST:  $53 million (Including professional fees, startup, and RDF receiving facility at
   utility)

 FINANCING:  Municipal general obligation bonds and State grant

 PROCUREMENT:

 Designer—Raytheon Service Company

 Operator—Raytheon Service Company (5-year renewable contract)

 Owner—Monroe County

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Procurement Approach—Modified full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

RDF (fluff, l'/2 inch particle size)/Rochester Gas and Electric Corp.

Ferrous metals/Vulcan Metals Company

Aluminum/Reynolds Metals Co.

Glass/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  Howard F. Christensen
                     Division of Solid Waste
                     Department of Public Works
                     110 Coif ax Street
                     Rochester, New York 14614
                     (716)428-5921

PROJECT STATUS:  Under construction

Officials for this project are presently attempting to assure a supply of waste to the facility to enable
it to operate economically. In addition, RDF marketing work is continuing, in order to assure adequate
markets.

Raytheon Service Company designed  the facility, is managing construction, and will operate the
facility. The facility is being constructed by a general construction contractor selected by the County
under a low-bid competition.

As of February  1979,  construction of the facility was 90 percent complete,  and dry-cycle testing had
begun. Officials expect to begin  processing materials through the facility by June 1979.


                               MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA
PROJECT TYPE:  Methane recovery from a landfill

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  July 1979

CAPITAL COST:  Not available

FINANCING:  Private capital

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Ortloff  Corp.

Operator—Reserve Synthetic Fuels, Inc.

Owner—Joint venture between Ortloff Corp.  and Reserve Synthetic Fuels, Inc.

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Methane/Southern California Gas Company

PROJECT CONTACT:  Fred Rice
                     Director of Business Development and Marketing
                     Reserve Synthetic Fuels, Inc.
                     2750 Signal Parkway
                     Signal Hill, California 90806
                     (213) 595-4964

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PROJECT STATUS:  Under construction

Construction is under way on this project to utilize methane gas from a landfill which is owned and
operated by Operating Industries, Inc. Up to about 8 million cubic feet per day of raw gas will be
drawn from 21 wells on the site. This gas  will be processed to yield approximately 4 million cubic
feet of pipeline-quality gas. The processed gas will be piped to an underground storage facility near
the landfill and will be used for general distribution by Southern California Gas Company.


                              MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA
PROJECT TYPE:  Methane recovery from a landfill

STARTUP DATE:   January 1979

CAPITAL COSTS:  $840,000

FINANCING:  $270,000, EPA grant; remainder, Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—PG&E

Operator—PG&E

Owner—PG&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
                                     Amount
                                     Recovered
Products    Characteristics          or Produced          Status        Markets

Methane    950 Btu/stdft'        1 million ft/day, raw     Producing      PG&E
                                gas; approx. 650,000
                                ft'/day, processed gas

PROJECT CONTACTS:  Richard Haughey                     Max Blanchet
                      Resident Engineer                    Senior Resources Engineer
                      Dept. of Public Works                 Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
                      540 Castro Street                     245 Market Street
                      Mountain View, California 94042       San Francisco, California 94106
                      (415)967-7211                         (415)781-4211


PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

This project became operational in January 1979. Raw gas is pumped from wells on  the Mountain
View landfill and is purified by a molecular sieve cleansing system. After purification the gas is fed
directly into the PG&E transmission pipeline.


                                  NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
PROJECT TYPE:   Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace to produce steam

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—720 TPD  (Two 360-TPD boilers)

Actual Average Throughput—400 TPD

STARTUP DATE:   June 1974

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 CAPITAL COSTS:  $25  million (Including $13 million for  boiler facility and $4 million for steam
  distribution system in 1974, and $8 million for recent modifications)

 FINANCING:  Revenue bonds

 PROCUREMENT:

 Designer—I. C. Thomasson Associates

Operator—Nashville Thermal Transfer Corporation

Owner—Nashville Thermal Transfer Corporation

Procurement Approach—Not applicable

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
                                       Amount
                                      Recovered
Products         Characteristics      or Produced      Status         Markets

Steam           600° F, 400 psig      100,000 Ib/hr      Selling        Downtown  heating and
                                                                      cooling loop

PROJECT CONTACT:  Milton Kirkpatrick
                     General Manager
                     Nashville Thermal Transfer Corporation
                     110 First Avenue South
                     Nashville, Tennessee 37201
                     (615) 224-3150

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

The Nashville Thermal Transfer Corporation, a nonprofit authority, began operating this facility in
June 1974. Unlike other facilities, the system was originally conceived as a fossil-fuel-fired district
heating and cooling system.  Later, but still in the planning stages, a decision was made to use solid
waste as the primary  energy source.

The system is operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It includes a standby package-type boiler,
which can be fired by oil or  gas. This is necessary  because some of Nashville Thermal's customers
have  no alternative means of heating or cooling. For cooling, steam turbine-driven chillers provide
water at 41° F to customers.

In order to bring the  boiler  facility into compliance with current emission standards,  low-energy
scrubbers were recently replaced with  electrostatic precipitators. This modification  cost approxi-
mately $8 million. Particulate emissions are now well within standards.
                                 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
PROJECT TYPE:  Materials recovery using a dry mechanical process (ferrous metals and aluminum)
  and froth floatation (glass)

CAPACITY:   Design Capacity—750 TPD (12 hours a day, 6 days a week)

Actual Average Throughput—650 TPD

STARTUP DATE:  March 1978 (Materials recovery processes completed)

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CAPITAL COSTS:  Approximately $9 million (Including buildings and equipment)

FINANCING:   Waste Management, Inc. and loan from National Center for Resource Recovery (NCRR)

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—NCRR

Operator—Waste Management, Inc.

Owner—Waste Management, Inc.

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
Products

Ferrous metals


Aluminum

Glass
Characteristics

Shredded and
  unshredded

Shredded

Froth floated
Amount Recovered
   or Produced     Status
   15-20 TPD
Selling
   500-700 Ib/day  Selling

   —             In shakedown
Markets

Proler International
  Corp.

Reynolds Metals Co.
PROJECT CONTACTS:
     Frank Bernheisel
     National Center for Resource Recovery
     1211 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
     Washington, D.C. 20036
     (202) 223-6154
                           W. S. Parker
                           Directing Engineer
                           17000 Chef Menteur Highway
                           New Orleans, Louisiana 70129
                           (504) 254-2227
PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

This facility is a demonstration project for the National Center for Resource Recovery (NCRR). The
operation of the facility has included two phases. The first phase was begun in September 1976, and
included waste shredding and landfilling for land reclamation near the site of the plant. A second
process line has now been installed which includes tromrneling (sizing) of raw waste,  shredding,
and recovery of ferrous metals, aluminum, and glass. The ferrous metals recovery system is presently
being redesigned to improve product quality. NCRR is also actively pursuing an energy market for
the light, organic fraction of the shredded waste.


Waste collection is the responsibility of the city of New Orleans. Waste Management, Inc. has a 12-
year, "put or pay" contract with the city for delivery of an average 650 TPD of waste to  the facility.
No shortfalls of waste delivery have taken place. The resource recovery facility processes nearly two-
thirds of New Orleans' waste, including nearly all residential solid waste.
                                   NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
 PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to produce RDF for use as a supplemental fuel in  off-site
   generation of steam/electricity

 DESIGN CAPACITY:  2000 TPD initially, 3000 TPD ultimately

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EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  1981

CAPITAL COST:   Approximately $70 million

FINANCING:  Private capital

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Joint venture: Combustion Equipment Associates, Inc.; and Occidental Resource Recovery
  Associates (CEA-Oxy)

Operator—CEA-Oxy

Owner—CEA-Oxy

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

RDF (powder)/Public Service Electric & Gas Co.

Ferrous metals/Vulcan Metals Co. or M&T Chemicals Inc.

Glass, aluminum, paper possible

PROJECT CONTACT:  Frank Sudol
                     Supervisory Environmental Specialist
                     Room 410
                     Newark City Hall
                     920 Broad Street
                     Newark, New Jersey 07102
                     (201) 733-6683

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

A joint venture of Combustion Equipment Associates, Inc., and Occidental Resource Recovery As-
sociates, is financing this project and relying on sales of RDF to Public Service Electric & Gas Co.
to make the project profitable. The plant will initially include two 1000-TPD processing  lines with
facilities for adding a third line. The powdered RDF,  "Eco-Fuel II," will be burned by the Public
Service Electric & Gas Co. as a supplement to oil.

Since early 1976  activity on this project has moved from pre-bid conference through awarding of a
conditional contract and approval by state agencies to issuance of building permits. Ground breaking
was scheduled for spring 1979, with construction to be completed 24 months later.
                                NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK
PROJECT TYPE:   Processing of waste to recover materials and to produce RDF for use as a primary
  fuel in on-site generation of  steam/electricity

DESIGN CAPACITY:  2286 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  April 1, 1980

CAPITAL COST:  $73.9 million (Includes all facilities necessary for handling, preparation, and stor-
  age of municipal solid waste. Also included are boilers, electrical turbine generators, electrostatic
  precipitators, and associated auxiliary equipment.)

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FINANCING:  Niagara County Industrial Development Revenue Bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Glaus, Pyle,  Schomer, Burns & DeHaven, Inc.

Operator—Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corp.

Owner—Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corp.

Procurement Approach—Project initiated by Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corp.

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam and electricity/Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corp.

Ferrous metals/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT: James M. Green
                    Manager—Public Relations
                    Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corp.
                    345 Third Street
                    Niagara  Falls, New York 14302
                    (716) 278-7007

PROJECT STATUS:  Under construction

Approximately 30 percent of construction has been completed, and roughly 70 percent of the capital
is committed. Negotiations with local municipalities are under way to secure waste supply contracts.
                                   NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
                           (Southeastern Public Service Authority)
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to recover materials and to produce RDF for use as a primary
  fuel in on-site generation of steam/electricity

DESIGN CAPACITY:  2000 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  1983

CAPITAL COST:  Approximately $185 million (Including $117 million in construction costs for proc-
  essing facility and transfer stations; financing costs, engineering fees not included)

FINANCING:   Revenue bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Henningson Durham Richardson, Inc.

Operator—Southeastern Public Service Authority of Virginia (SPSA)

Owner—SPSA

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/Norfolk Naval Shipyard, at Portsmouth, Virginia, 100% of steam requirement

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Electricity/Naval shipyard, 75% of electricity requirement

PROJECT CONTACT:  Durwood Curling
                     Executive Director
                     Southeastern Public Service Authority, Suite 127
                     Koger Center, Building 18
                     Norfolk, Virginia 23502
                     (804) 461-0878

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

The Southeastern Public Service Authority of Virginia (SPSA) is made up of the cities of Chesapeake,
Franklin, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach,  and the counties of Isle of Wight and
Southampton. SPSA is responsible for implementing regional plans in  the Southeastern Virginia
Planning District. Interest in this resource  recovery project began in 1973  with a  feasibility study
covering waste stream composition, waste collection, and alternative resource recovery technologies.
This was followed by the development of an implementation plan in 1976. As of March 1979, SPSA
has established a project management team and has  selected a site for  the project. Engineering
design work was 30% complete.

This project is favored by its proximity to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth,  Va. The shipyard
is a ready market for the steam and electricity which the  plant will generate. The facilities for
production of RDF and for power generation will be located on site. The project also includes con-
struction of five solid waste transfer stations.

No significant problems are anticipated in securing waste for the project. Officials for SPSA expect
to receive guarantees from the member cities and counties for supplying their waste to the facility.
Private haulers, who collect approximately half of the waste in the planning district, are currently
supporting the facility. In addition, there are no private landfills in the area.
                                    NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
                                     (U.S. Naval Station)
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace to produce steam

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—360 TPD (2 boilers, 180 TPD each, operated alternately)

Actual Average Throughput—140 TPD (1 boiler)

STARTUP DATE:   1967

CAPITAL COSTS:  $3.5 million  (Including $2.2 million original cost in 1967; plus $1.1 million for
  electrostatic precipitators in 1976, and $200,000 for retubing in 1978)

 FINANCING:   Military construction project

 PROCUREMENT:

 Designer—Metcalf and Eddy, Inc.

 Operator—Navy Public Works Center

 Owner—U.S. Navy

 Procurement Approach—A&E

 PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

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                                  Amount
                                  Recovered
Products         Characteristics   or Produced      Status             Markets

Steam           225 psig (SAT)    40,000 Ibs/hr      Producing          U.S. Naval Station

PROJECT CONTACT:  Causey Simmons
                     Head, Utilities Department
                     Navy Public Works Center
                     Norfolk, Virginia 23511
                     (804) 444-7775

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

This facility is currently producing 10 percent of the Naval Station's steam requirements. The plant
normally operates one unit 24 hours a day, 5 days a week,  alternating boilers each week. Twenty
percent of the waste burned is residental, the rest is waste from the Naval Station activities.

The plant is undergoing modifications to meet air emissions standards.


                            NORTH ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS
                              (Northeast Solid Waste Council)
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace for on-site generation of
  steam/electricity

DESIGN CAPACITY:  3000 TPD

EXPECTED  STARTUP DATE:  3 years after signing of contract for construction

CAPITAL COST:   $120 million (1978 estimate)

FINANCING:  Industrial development revenue bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—UOP Inc.

Operator—UOP Inc.

Owner—UOP Inc.

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Electricity/New England Power

PROJECT CONTACT:  John F. Albis
                     Project Manager
                     Northeast Resource Recovery Project
                     North Andover Town Hall
                     North Andover, Massachusetts 01845
                     (617)727-1183

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

This facility is the largest of several projects which are being considered by communities of northeast
Massachusetts. It has received the endorsement of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental
Management. It is designed to handle 3000 TPD, but may be  scaled down, depending on the amount

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of waste which is committed. As of early February,  1979, less than 1000 TPD had been committed
from nearby communities. The project is also designed to include on-site generation of electricity.

The crucial step for this and all other projects competing in the area is securing commitments to
participate from cities and towns. This effort has been delayed, in some cases, by the fact that the
towns can authorize such commitments only at "town meetings," which take place once a year.

To assist the communities, EPA Region  1 contracted with a consulting firm to analyze and report on
the alternatives available to communities in northeast Massachusetts.
                              NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
PROJECT TYPE:   Combustion of unprocessed waste in a two-chamber, starved-air, modular incin-
  erator to prodce steam

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—100 TPD (4 modular units)

Actual Average Throughput—90 TPD

STARTUP DATE:  1977

CAPITAL COSTS:  $1.45 million (Excluding land)

FINANCING:  Municipal revenue bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Manufacturer—Consumat Systems, Inc.

Operator—City of North Little Rock

Owner—City of North Little Rock

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:               Amount
                                    Recovered
Products       Characteristics        or Produced   Status             Markets

Steam         350° F, 130 psig       17,000 Ibs/hr   Selling 11,750      Koppers Co., Inc.
                 (SAT)                               Ibs/hr              creosoting plant
PROJECT CONTACT:  Jack Atkins
                     Director of Sanitation
                     1120 N. Sycamore St.
                     North Little Rock, Arkansas 72114
                     (501) 374-6145

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

This facility is operated 24 hours a day, five days a week to supply steam to a nearby creosoting
plant. Major maintenance, repair, and residue removal are carried out on the weekends.

The system includes two identical heat recovery modules. Each module is made up of two incinerator
units, which feed into a single  boiler for heat recovery.  The two modules are located on opposite
wings of the facility, with a tipping floor between them.

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                                 OCEANSIDE, NEW YORK
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterfall furnace for on-site generation of
  steam/electricity

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—750 TPD, entire plant (300 TPD in each of two waterfall furnaces, 150 TPD in a
  backup refractory unit)

Actual Average Throughput—750 TPD

STARTUP DATE: Waterwall furnaces, 1974 and 1976

CAPITAL COSTS:  $9 million for both waterwall units

FINANCING:  Municipal bonds and state grant (addition of heat recovery system)

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Charles R. Velzy, Consulting Engineers

Operator—Township of Hempstead, New York

Owner—Township of  Hempstead, New York

Procurement Approach—A&E

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
                                  Amount Recovered
Products         Characteristics       or Produced     Status         Markets

Steam           	             60,000 Ibs/hr         In-plant use for electricity generation

PROJECT CONTACT:  Al Alvanese
                     Superintendent, Sanitation
                     Township of Hempstead
                     1600 Merrick Road
                     Merrick, New York 11566
                     (516) 378-4210

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

This plant originally had three batch-feed,  refractory furnaces, two of which had waste heat boilers.
The two furnaces with heat recovery were replaced, one in 1974 and the other in 1976, with continuous-
feed, waterwall units. The plant has had many problems with corrosion and erosion of boiler tubes.
New electrostatic precipitators are meeting emission standards.


                                   OSCEOLA, ARKANSAS
 PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a  two-chamber, starved-air, modular incin-
   erator to produce steam

 DESIGN CAPACITY:  50 TPD

 EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Early fall 1979

 CAPITAL COST:  $750,000 (including building and equipment)

 FINANCING:  Sanitation revenue bonds

 PROCUREMENT:
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 Manufacturer—Consumat Systems, Inc.

 Operator—City of Osceola

 Owner—City of Osceola

 PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

 Steam/Textile finishing firm

 PROJECT CONTACT:  Mayor R. E. Prewitt
                     City Hall
                     Osceola, Arkansas 72370
                     (501) 563-5245

 PROJECT STATUS:  Under construction

 For several  years Osceola has been burning its waste in two 12.5-TPD modular combustion units
 with no heat recovery. Due to an increasing supply of waste and a secure, adjacent steam market,
 the city began looking for additional capacity. In September 1978, the city contracted with Consumat
 Systems, Inc. to trade in its old units and purchase two 25-TPD modular units as part of  a system
 with heat recovery. The system will burn residential and industrial waste. Construction of the building
 to house the new units is nearly complete.


                                 OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK
 PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace to produce steam/elec-
  tricity (tentative)

 DESIGN CAPACITY:  Not determined

 EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  1985

 CAPITAL COST: Not determined

 FINANCING: Not determined

 PROCUREMENT:

 Designer—Not determined

 Operator—Not determined

 Owner—Not determined

 Procurement Approach—Full  service

 PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

 Steam/not determined

 Ferrous metals,  aluminum/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  John Vanderveer
                     Superintendent of Environmental Control
                     150 Miller Place
                     Syosset, New York 11791
                     (516) 921-7347 Ext. 514

PROJECT STATUS:   Advanced planning

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RFP has been issued for design, construction, and operation of this project, and proposals were due
in June 1979. A pre-submittal conference has been held for all interested parties. Decisions concerning
the scale and financing for this project will be made on the basis of a study being finalized in early
1979.


                               PALOS VERDES, CALIFORNIA
PROJECT TYPE:  Methane recovery from a landfill

STARTUP DATE:  1975

CAPITAL COSTS:  Not available

FINANCING:  Private capital for construction of gas processing plant

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Reserve Synthetic Fuels, Inc.

Operator—Reserve Synthetic Fuels, Inc.

Owner—Reserve Synthetic Fuels, Inc.

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
                                        Amount
                                       Recovered
Products         Characteristics        or Produced       Status        Markets

Methane        Meets pipeline   1000 ftVminute,          Selling       Southern California
                  standards, 1000     raw landfill gas;                     Gas Co.
                  Btu/stdft3         50° ft3/minute,
                                   processed  gas

PROJECT CONTACT:  Robert E. Van Heuit
                     Division Engineer
                     Los Angeles County Sanitation District
                     P.O. Box 4998
                     Whittier, California 90607
                     (213)699-7411

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

Reserve Synthetic Fuels, Inc., has constructed and is operating a molecular sieve cleansing plant
that purifies raw landfill gas to pipeline  standards. Approximately 500 cubic  feet per  minute of
pipeline-quality gas is produced from every 1000 cubic feet per minute of raw gas drawn from wells
on the Palos Verdes landfill. The wells and raw gas pipeline system were provided by the Los Angeles
County Sanitation District. After purification, the  gas is fed directly into a Southern California Gas
Company gas main. Plans are being made to expand the facility to process about 3000 cubic feet per
minute of raw landfill gas.
                                PEABODY, MASSACHUSETTS
                             (Southern Essex Solid Waste Council)
 PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of waste to produce RDF for use as a supplemental fuel in the generation
   of steam/electricity

 DESIGN CAPACITY:  1800 TPD

 EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  30-36 months after construction contracts are signed

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CAPITAL COST:   $20 million

FINANCING:  Private capital

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Combustion Equipment Associates, Inc. (CEA)

Operator—CEA

Owner—CEA

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

RDF'Narragansett Electric Co. and James River Corporation pulp mill

Ferrous metals/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  Anthony Fletcher
                     Chairman, SESWC
                     1 Salem Green
                     Salem, Massachusetts 01970
                     (617) 744-0241

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

This facility is one of several which are being considered by communities in northeast Massachusetts.
The project is backed by enabling legislation calling for the Southern Essex Solid Waste District to
be created when 275,000 TPY have  been committed from communities  in the area. The District will
have authority to sign contracts for financing, construction, and operation of the facility. As of Feb-
ruary 1979, 30,000 TPY had been committed from the city of Peabody.

The crucial step for this and all  other projects competing in the area is securing commitments to
participate from cities and towns. This effort has been delayed, in some cases, by the fact that towns
can authorize such commitments only at "town meetings," which take  place once a year.

To assist the communities, EPA Region 1 has contracted with a consulting firm to analyze and report
on the alternatives available to communities in northeast Massachusetts.


                                PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace for on-site generation of
  steam/electricity.

DESIGN CAPACITY:  2000 TPD, operating seven days per  week

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Spring 1982

CAPITAL COST:  $80-90 million  (Total cost, including boiler  unit,  generators,  land, scale house,
  financing costs, and other costs)

FINANCING:  Pinellas County Revenue Bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Procon Inc.,  a subsidiary of UOP Inc.

Operator—UOP Inc.

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Owner—Pinellas County

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Electricity/Orlando Utilities Commission

Ferrous metals, aluminum/not determined

Non-ferrous heavy metals, aggregate/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  D. F. Acenbrack
                     Director of Solid Waste Management
                     Department of Public Works and Utilities
                     Pinellas County
                     315 Haven Street
                     Clearwater, Florida 33516
                     (813) 448-2251

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

Pinellas County is negotiating with UOP  Inc.  to finalize contracts for design, construction, and op-
eration of this project. The county is also working on obtaining power plant site certification from the
State of Florida.

Electricity  will  be generated on site and sold to  the Orlando  Utilities Commission.  Plans for the
project also include extensive, post-incineration materials recovery of ferrous metals, heavy nonfer-
rous metals,  aluminum, and  aggregate. This  material recovery will be accomplished through spe-
cially arranged waste flow and heat control.

Municipal  collection systems handle about 60 percent of the 2200  TPD of waste generated in the
county. State law gives the  county authority over the disposal of waste within its  borders. Few
problems are expected in obtaining cooperation of the municipalities for the project.


                                PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of processed and unprocessed waste in a two-chamber, starved-air,
  modular incinerator to produce steam

DESIGN CAPACITY:  240 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Fall 1980

CAPITAL COST:  $5.3 million (Construction, processing equipment, combustion units, boilers, steam
  lines)

FINANCING:  Industrial development revenue bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Vicon  Recovery Associates

Operator—Vicon  Recovery Associates

Owner—Vicon Recovery Associates

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

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 Steam/local paper manufacturer

 Ferrous metals, aluminum/not determined

 PROJECT CONTACT:  Joseph Domas, Jr.
                     President
                     Vicon Construction Company
                     Bridgewater Lane
                     P.O. Box 488
                     Lincoln Park, New Jersey 07035
                     (201) 696-9200

 PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

 After several years of public discussion and study of Pittsfield's solid waste problem, the City Com-
 mission decided that resource recovery would provide the best solution. With the assistance of Metcalf
 & Eddy, Inc. as consultants, the city issued an RFP in the spring of 1978. Vicon Construction Company
 was selected, and extensive negotiations have been carried out covering construction, financing,
 markets, and operation. A contract was signed in early February, 1979, between the city and Vicon
 Recovery Associates, a partnership formed for the purpose of carrying out the contract.

 The feasibility of this project was greatly enhanced by the presence of a secure local market for
 steam. The steam purchaser, a paper manufacturer, has agreed to buy all the steam the facility can
 produce. Vicon has guaranteed a supply of 600,000 pounds per day and will increase this amount as
 it is able to do so.

 Vicon expects to process one half of the waste burned in the units. Processing will include trommeling
 and hand sorting to recover ferrous  metals and aluminum.  However,  plant economics are based
 solely on the production and sale of steam.
                                POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA
PROJECT TYPE:  Codisposal (pilot) to produce methane in controlled digesters

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—50 to 100 TPD MSW and sewage sludge

Acutal Average Throughput—10 TPD

STARTUP DATE:  June 1978

CAPITAL COSTS:  $2.9 million (1976)

FINANCING:  U.S. Department of Energy grant

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Jacobs Construction, Inc.

Operator—Waste Management, Inc.

Owner—Waste Management, Inc.

Procurement Approach—Not applicable

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

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Products
Methane
Characteristics
550 to 750 Btu/stdft
Amount
Recovered
or Produced

Not available
                                                            Status
Producing
                Markets
Use on site
PROJECT CONTACT:  Peter Ware
                     Waste Management, Inc.
                     900 Jorie Boulevard
                     Oakbrook, Illinois 60521
                     (312) 654-8800

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating (Shakedown)

This pilot facility is operated by Waste Management, Inc., to provide data regarding methane pro-
duction from a mixture of municipal solid waste and sewage sludge. Optimum temperature, residence
time, ingredient mixtures, and supplementary  nutrients will be investigated. The process involves
shredding, magnetic separation, trommeling, and air classification prior to anaerobic digestion.


                                 PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA
                                  (Norfolk Naval Shipyard)
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace to produce steam

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—160 TPD (Two 80-TPD boilers)

Actual Average Throughput—30 TPD

STARTUP DATE:  1976

CAPITAL COSTS:   Approximately $4.5 million

FINANCING: Military construction project, pollution  abatement

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Not available

Operator—Public Works Department, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia

Owner—U.S. Navy

Procurement Approach—Not applicable

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
                                      Amount
                                      Recovered
Products         Characteristics       or Produced       Status

Steam          350° F, 125 psig (SAT)   30,000 Ibs/hr       Producing

PROJECT CONTACT:  Pedro Cananan
                     NAVFAC ENGCOM
                     Environmental Quality Branch
                     Norfolk, Virginia 23511
                     (804) 444-7313

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating
                                                           Markets

                                                           Naval Shipyard
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The plant accepts all waste collected from the shipyard and the on-base housing, and is also accepting
waste from the city of Norfolk.

The two 80-TPD boilers are operated on alternate weeks to allow for cleanout and maintenance.
Steam generated by the plant is supplied to shipyard facilities and ships undergoing repair.


                                 SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace to produce steam

DESIGN CAPACITY:  1500 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  1983

CAPITAL COST:  Not determined

FINANCING:  Not determined

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Twin RESCO (Joint venture between Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. and Phoenix Industries)

Operator—Twin RESCO

Owner—Twin RESCO

Procurement Approach—Modified full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/not determined

Ferrous metals/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  Floyd Forsburg
                     Energy and Solid Waste Division
                     Department of Public Works
                     234 City Hall
                     St. Paul, Minnesota 55101
                     (612) 298-4321

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

RFP was issued in February 1977 which resulted in the selection of Twin RESCO to develop a full
service proposal (for design, construction, and operation) for the city of St. Paul. Twin RESCO is a
joint venture between Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc., and Phoenix, Inc., a local waste hauling and disposal
firm.  Twin RESCO began work on securing financing,  obtaining required permits, and finalizing
contracts for markets and waste supply. The technology to be employed at this facility will be similar
to that used at the RESCO plant in Saugus, Massachusetts.


                                     SALEM, VIRGINIA
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste  in a two-chamber,  starved-air, modular
  incinerator to produce steam

CAPACITY:

Design Capacity—100 TPD (Four 25 TPD modular units)

Actual Average Throughput—70 TPD in January 1979

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STARTUP DATE:  January 1979

CAPITAL COSTS:  $1.9 million

FINANCING:   Municipal  general obligation bonds and a $302,000 Department of Energy grant for
  energy recovery

PROCUREMENT:

Manufacturer—Consumat Systems, Inc.

Operator—City of Salem

Owner—City of Salem

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

                                  Amount Recovered
Products         Characteristics       or Produced    Status         Markets

Steam            250 psig (SAT)     20,000 Ibs/hr      Selling         Mohawk Rubber Company

PROJECT CONTACT:  William Paxton
                     City Manager
                     P.O. Box 869
                     Salem, Virginia 24153
                     (703) 389-8601

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

Two relatively minor problems surfaced in the first month and a half  of operation in the system's
automatic ash  removal equipment. The first problem was the freezing of water in the system's residue
quenching tank. This will be alleviated by modifying and heating the building. The second problem
involves the conveyor which moves residue from the incinerators to the quenching tanks. A single
conveyor performs this function for all four modular units. Large, irregular-sized pieces of metal were
found to block the flow of the conveyor. Officials  recommend that systems be designed with  more
than one conveyor to service four units.

The system is  operated 24 hours a day, five days a week.  Nine people are assigned to the project,
including: a supervisor, a clerk for weighing trucks and bins, a mechanic, and two people on  three
shifts to charge and operate  the units.
                                 SAUGUS, MASSACHUSETTS
 PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace to produce steam

 CAPACITY:

 Design Capacity—1500 TPD

 Actual Average Throughput—1000 TPD

 STARTUP DATE:  1976

 CAPITAL COSTS:  $43 million

 FINANCING:  Industrial revenue bonds and private capital

 PROCUREMENT:

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Designer—Refuse Energy Systems Company (RESCO), a joint venture between Wheelabrator-Frye,
  Inc. and De Matteo Construction Company

Operator—RESCO

Owner—RESCO

Procurement Approach—Not applicable

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
Products

Steam


Ferrous metals
                   Amount
                  Recovered
Characteristics    or Produced
Superheated,
  845° F
285,000 Ibs/hr
                 75 to 80 TPD
Status

Selling


Stockpiling
Markets

General Electric Co.
PROJECT CONTACT:  John Kehoe
                     Vice President
                     General Manager, Energy Systems Division
                     Wheelabrator-Frye, Incorporated
                     Hampton, New Hampshire 03842
                     (800) 258-0850

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

The plant had superheater and grate problems which have been solved by using special alloys. It
has not been operated at full capacity as yet because the amount of waste delivered to the plant has
been less than anticipated. General Electric Co. does not always take the full load of steam which
the plant produces.
                               SILOAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
PROJECT  TYPE:  Combustion of  unprocessed waste in a two-chamber, starved-air,  modular
  incinerator to produce steam

CAPACITY:

Design—19 TPD (Two 9.5 TPD modular units)

Actual Average Throughput—16.5 TPD

STARTUP DATE:  September 1975

CAPITAL COSTS:  $377,000 (1974)

FINANCING:  Municipal funds

PROCUREMENT:

Manufacturer—Consumat Systems, Inc.

Operator—City of  Siloam Springs

Owner—City of Siloam Springs

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:
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                                  Amount
                                  Recovered
Products         Characteristics   or Produced      Status              Markets

Steam            125 psig (SAT)     10,000 Ibs/hr      Selling             Local  food canning
                                                                        plant

PROJECT CONTACT:  Al Varwig
                     Superintendent of Sanitation
                     City Hall
                     Siloam Springs, Arkansas 72761
                     (501) 524-8512

PROJECT STATUS:  Operating

This facility has been successfully burning municipal solid waste and producing steam since Sep-
tember  1975. Volume and weight reduction are 95 percent and 67 percent, respectively.

The entire operation is broken into three operating steps per 24-hour period: 15 hours of charging and
burning solid waste, 7 hours of cooldown and 2 hours of cleanout. Plant operators indicate a problem
with cracking of refractory material inside furnaces during ash cleanout when cold outside air comes
in contact with the  refractory walls. The city is considering purchase of an automatic ash removal
system  to alleviate  this problem.


                                STATEN ISLAND,  NEW YORK
PROJECT TYPE:  Methane recovery from a landfill

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:   1981

CAPITAL COST:  Not available

FINANCING:  Private capital

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Not determined

Operator—Reserve  Synthetic Fuels, Inc.

Owner—Reserve  Synthetic Fuels, Inc.

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Methane/Brooklyn Union Gas Company

PROJECT CONTACT: Fred Rice
                     Director of Business Development and Marketing
                     Reserve Synthetic Fuels,  Inc.
                     2750 Signal Parkway
                     Signal Hill, California 90806
                     (213) 595-4964

 PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

 This project will be located at the New York City Fresh Kills* Landfill on Staten Island. It will  produce
 4 to 6 million cubic feet of pipeline-quality gas  per day. Final engineering design is under  way.
     * "Kill" or "kil" was early Dutch settlers' term for "channel" or "creek."

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                                      TOLEDO, OHIO
PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste or processing of waste to  produce RDF (not
  determined)

DESIGN CAPACITY:  1000 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Late 1982

CAPITAL COST:  Approximately $46 million

FINANCING:  Ohio Water Development Authority Bonds (tentatively)

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Not determined

Operator—Not determined

Owner—Ohio Water Development Authority

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/Local industrial user

Ferrous metals/not  determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  Gary V. Hodge
                     Deputy Director
                     Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments
                     Robert C. Rivet
                     Resource Economist
                     420 Madison Avenue
                     Toledo, Ohio 43604
                     (419) 241-9155

PROJECT STATUS:   Advanced planning

RFP for design,  construction, and  operation of this facility was issued in October 1978. Seventeen
responses were received.  Proposals are for steam production and for generation of steam and elec-
tricity.  Selection of  a contractor was planned for June 1979.

The Toledo Metropolitan Area COG is  the designated solid waste planning agency  for the Toledo
area. The implementing entity for  resource recovery in the Toledo area is Northwestern Ohio Solid
Waste Management (NOSWM). The NOSWM Board of Trustees is recognized by the local governments
and state agencies  as the policy-making body for resource recovery project development and imple-
mentation in  the Toledo area. The eight-member Board of Trustees of  NOSWM is appointed by the
Mayor  of Toledo (5 members), the  Lucas County Commissioners (2),  and the Toledo  Chamber  of
Commerce (1). The Toledo Metropolitan Area COG is represented on the  board in non-voting capacity.


                                    TULSA, OKLAHOMA
PROJECT TYPE:  Processing of  waste to  produce RDF for use as a  supplemental  fuel in  off-site
  generation of steam/electricity

DESIGN CAPACITY:  1000 TPD

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Early 1982

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CAPITAL COST:  $22 million (construction costs)

FINANCING:  Industrial revenue bonds

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Mustang RDF Company and Williams Brothers Engineering Co.

Operator—Mustang RDF Company

Owner—Tulsa Energy Resource Recovery Authority (TERRA)

Procurement Approach—Full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

RDF (fluff, 1" nominal size)/Public Service Co. of Oklahoma

Ferrous metals, Aluminum, mixed non-ferrous,  glass/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  David Thomas
                     V.P., General Manager
                     Mustang RDF Company, Suite 1100
                     First National Center East
                     120 North Robinson St.
                     Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102
                     (405) 272-9471

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced planning

Interest in resource recovery in Tulsa began in 1975 with discussions between the City Commission,
Public Service Company  of Oklahoma (electric utility),  and Williams Brothers Urban Ore, Inc., an
environmental engineering firm. In November  1977,  the Tulsa Energy Resource Recovery Authority
(TERRA) was created by the City Commission  to finance, construct, and own a resource recovery
facility. Since then, Williams Brothers and Mustang RDF Company, a subsidiary of Mustang Fuel
Corporation, have financed feasibility studies for the project and are presently completing work on
engineering design. The  only condition the two companies  have made for sponsoring this work is
that they be reimbursed from bond proceeds if  TERRA uses the engineering data they developed to
build the system.

One problem which has been encountered is that of securing waste for the facility. Municipal col-
lection in Tulsa accounts for less than 50 percent of the waste. One-hundred-and-thirty private haulers
operate outside direct city control.



                            WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK
 PROJECT TYPE:  Combustion of unprocessed waste in a waterwall furnace  to produce  steam/
    electricity

 DESIGN CAPACITY:  1500 TPD

 EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  Early 1983

 CAPITAL COST:  $75-80 million

 FINANCING:  $27 million from New York Environmental Quality Bonds; 20% of  total from private
   equity; remainder from industrial development revenue bonds

 PROCUREMENT:

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Designer—Not determined

Operator—Not determined

Owner—Joint ownership: private contractor to be selected and municipal authority to be established

Procurement Approach—Modified full service

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/not determined

PROJECT CONTACT:  Edward Davies
                     Assistant Commissioner
                     Solid Waste
                     522 County Office Building
                     White Plains, New York 10601
                     (914) 682-2003

PROJECT STATUS:  Advanced Planning

In 1977, officials  issued RFP's for  resource recovery facilities at two sites  in the county.  The 14
responses were analyzed, and a report was  sent to the County Board of Legislators. The Board
eventually rejected both original sites for the facility and selected a third at Peekskill, New York.
Then, based on the responses  to the original RFP's,  county officials began drafting bid documents
for the Peekskill facility. The bid documents will be used to select a construction contractor through
competitive bidding,  as required by New York State procurement law.

Since the  county  does not have control of the waste stream, county officials are developing inter-
municipal agreements with up to 44 communities in  the county for participation in  the project.  The
county has been divided into eight waste-shed areas to facilitate transportation of the waste.


                                 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
PROJECT  TYPE:   Codisposal—Combustion of municipal solid  waste  and  sewage sludge in  a
  waterwall furnace to produce steam

DESIGN CAPACITY:   1000 TPD MSW and 50 dry TPD sludge

EXPECTED STARTUP DATE:  1982

CAPITAL COST:   Projected, $75-90 million

FINANCING:  Revenue bonds,  federal and state grants

PROCUREMENT:

Designer—Processing facility, Raytheon Service Company; steam generating facility, not determined;
  sludge handling subsystem,  Raytheon Service Company

Operator—Processing facility, Raytheon Service Company; other facilities not determined

Owner—Delaware Solid Waste Authority

Procurement Approach—Processing facility and sludge handling, full  service; steam generating
    facility, not determined

PRODUCTS/MARKETS:

Steam/Negotiating with industrial markets

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Ferrous metals/Detinner

Aluminum/Recycler

Glass (froth floated)/Glass container manufacturers

Humus/Poultry farm for use as litter

PROJECT CONTACT:  Pasquale Canzano
                     Chief Engineer
                     Delaware Solid Waste Authority
                     P.O. Box 981
                     Dover, Delaware  19901
                     (302) 678-5361

PROJECT STATUS:  Processing plant and sludge handling subsystem, under construction; steam
  generating facility, advanced planning

This project is being partially funded by EPA as a demonstration facility. A contract was signed in
  August 1978 between the Delaware Solid Waste Authority and Raytheon  Service Company for
  construction of the RDF processing plant and sludge handling subsystem. As of February 1979 site
  work was well under way, and an RFP was being developed for procurement of the steam generating
  facility.
  The remainder of this report covers: Federal
resource recovery  facilities, resource recovery
projects under the President's Urban Policy, and
State  resource conservation and recovery pro-
grams.

    Federal Resource Recovery
                Facilities
  Federal agencies, particularly the Depart-
ment of Defense, are showing increasing inter-
est in energy recovery from solid waste. Most of
the Federal  facilities  use incineration, with
steam  being generated for on-site use.  Some
facilities are combining  their  operations with
the solid waste programs of nearby cities.
  Shown in table 5 are large- and small-scale,
Federally-owned facilities that currently are
operating, or under construction, or in advanced
planning. In addition  to the facilities  shown,
over  25 projects  are under consideration  for
feasibility.
  The  information provided in the table was
compiled in August 1978. For more information,
contact Jane Stieber, State Programs and Re-
source  Recovery  Division  (WH-563),  Office  of
Solid Waste, U.S. Environmental  Protection
Agency, Washington, D.C. 20460, telephone(202)
755-9140.

     Resource  Recovery Projects
   Under  The President's  Urban
                  Policy
  The President's Urban Policy, issued on March
27, 1978, directed the  U.S. Environmental Pro-
tection Agency to carry out a program of finan-
cial assistance to urban areas for solid waste
resource recovery. As stated in the Federal Reg-
ister, October 17, 1978, this program is aimed at
accomplishing three primary objectives: "to ac-
celerate national progress in resource recovery
implementation; to provide  environmentally
sound alternatives to solid waste disposal; and
to assist economically distressed urban  areas
pursuant to the President's  Urban Policy." To
allow EPA  to carry  out this program, Congress
approved funding of $15 million for FY 1979. An
additional  $13.9 million was requested by the
President for FY 1980.
  Funds offered by  the program can be used by
local governments  to hire a resource recovery
project  director  and staff, and to obtain con-
sulting expertise and to pay other approved
costs as listed in the Federal Register oi October
17, 1978, pages  47944 through 47949. Final en-
gineering design and construction are not fund-
able  items under  the program.  Recipients of
assistance are required to furnish 25 percent of
the cost of  their projects.
  The deadline  for submitting preapplications
for FY 1979  funds was December 15, 1978. A total
of 205 preapplications  were received and eval-
uated by the States, the Department of Energy
and the EPA headquarters and regional offices.
Evaluation criteria  included the extent of land
disposal problems, potential for successful im-
plementation of resource recovery, and degree
of uiban economic distress. On February 23,
1979, EPA announced that 68 communities had
been selected to receive funds, pending the de-
velopment of a satisfactory scope of work by the
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communities. The selected projects included
seven  for source separation, four for  sewage
sludge co-disposal with solid waste, and a va-
riety of large-scale and small-scale energy re-
covery projects. The selectees for FY 1979 are
listed in table 6 by EPA Regions. For further in-
formation on  the Resource  Recovery Program
under  the  President's Urban  Policy, contract
Steven  Levy,  State  Programs and Resource
Recovery  Division (WH-563),  Office of  Solid
Waste, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Washington,  D.C. 20460,  telephone (202) 755-
9140.

State Resource Conservation and
         Recovery Programs
  As open dumps are being  closed  and up-
graded, and as land disposal sites are becoming
increasingly difficult to locate and more strin-
gently regulated, resource conservation and re-
covery is surfacing as a key alternative for solid
waste management in the United States.
  The Congress has urged the States to exercise
leadership in  facilitating the movement toward
more environmentally sound disposal. Several
sections of the Resource Conservation and Re-
covery Act of 1976 (RCRA) stress the importance
of developing State resource conservation and
recovery programs. A key mechanism for plan-
ning and  implementing these programs is the
State Solid Waste Management  Plans. On Au-
gust 28, 1978,  EPA issued proposed guidelines
for  the  development and  implementation of
State plans for solid waste management. Sub-
part D of these guidelines delineates the re-
quired and recommended resource conservation
and recovery activities which are to be incor-
porated in the State plans.
  In addition to the Guidelines, EPA's Office of
Solid Waste is drafting a handbook tentatively
titled, Developing A State  Resource Conserva-
tion and Recovery Program. The handbook will
delineate the opportunities available to States,
and will utilize examples of States which  have
seized those opportunities to their advantage.
  The table on the following pages (table 7) pre-
sents a picture of the current level of State re-
source conservation and recovery activity in the
United States.  The data  was collected by tele-
phone interviews conducted over the 12-month
period, January-December 1978.  The  specific
date of collection for each State is shown in the
first column of the tables. Each State's activities
are broken down into three categories of activ-
ities: planning,  legislation, and  implementa-
tion. More detailed  information about these
activities is  available in  an EPA publication
titled State Resource Recovery Activities, 1978.
   If you have any questions about these State
 activities or would like to provide EPA with up-
 dated information, please contact David Gav-
 rich, State Programs and Resource Recovery
 Division (WH-563), Office of Solid Waste, EPA,
 Washington, D.C. 20460,  telephone (202)755-9140.
                                              80

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TABLE  6.   RESOURCE RECOVERY PROJECTS UNDER  THE PRESIDENT'S  URBAN
                             POLICY, 1979 SELECTEES

EPA REGION 1

Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority (New Haven), CT
New Britain, CT

Central Massachusetts Solid Waste Project (Worcester), MA
Lower Pioneer Valley—Regional Resource Recovery Planning Project (Springfield), MA

Claremont, NH
Dover and Somersworth, NH

Rhode Island Solid Waste Management Corporation, RI

Rutland, VT


EPA REGION 2

Camden City and County, NJ
Hackensack Meadowlands Commission, NJ
Mercer County Improvement Authority (Trenton), NJ
Newark, NJ

Brookhaven, NY
Monroe County, NY
New York City, NY
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (New York City), NY
Utica, NY
Westchester County, NY

Solid Waste Management Authority (San Juan), PR

Government of the Virgin Islands—Department of Public Works (St. Thomas), VI


EPA REGION 3

District of Columbia Department of Environmental Services, DC

Baltimore County, MD
Howard County (Columbia), MD

Philadelphia, PA

Southeast Public Service Authority (Norfolk), VA

State Resource Recovery—Solid Waste Disposal Authority, WV


EPA REGION 4

Jefferson County (Birmingham), AL

Broward County, FL
Daytona Beach, FL
Escambia County (Pensacola), FL
Hillsborough County (Tampa), FL

                                         81

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                                 (Continued) TABLE 6


Floyd County (Rome), GA
LaGrange, GA
Savannah, GA

Bell County (Middlesboro), KY

Hattiesburg, MS

Charlotte, NC
Fayetteville, NC


EPA REGION 5

Chicago, IL
Rockford, IL

Indianapolis, IN

Detroit, MI
Flint, MI
West Michigan Regional Planning Commission (Grand Rapids, Muskegon), MI

St. Paul, MN

Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), OH
Montgomery County (Dayton), OH
Toledo, OH

State Solid Waste Recycling Authority (Wausau), WI
EPA REGION 6

New Orleans, LA

Del City, OK

Tarrant County (Fort Worth), TX
Waco, TX


EPA REGION 7

Black Hawk County, IA

Bi-State Development Agency (St. Louis), MO
Kansas City, MO
Springfield, MO


 EPA  REGION 8

 Eagle, CO

 Wasatch Front Regional Council (Salt Lake City), UT

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                               TABLE 6 (Concluded)

EPA REGION 9

Berkeley, CA
Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County, CA
San Francisco, CA

Kauai County, HA


EPA REGION 10

Lane County, OR
Portland, OR

King County (Seattle), WA
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