Trash Talk Time Nearly Over
Prince George, B.C. – Residents of the Regional District of Fraser fort George have until 5 p.m. to submit their thoughts on solid waste management.
Residents have been invited to fill out an online survey to share their thoughts about garbage, recycling and composting. It’s all part of the Regional District’s review of its solid waste management plan.
The Regional Solid Waste Management Plan is the plan that lays out how recycling, composting and garbage disposal will be handled for the next 10 – 20 years. The plan must be updated every 5 years to ensure it’s meeting current needs.
Things have changed significantly since the current plan was approved in 2009. Over the past few years, curbside recycling has been introduced in Prince George, there have been changes in transfer stations and new fees added for garbage delivered to the Foothills Landfill.
As part of the review, the Regional District is also meeting directly with key stakeholders to get more feedback.
Response from surveys and stakeholders will be formulated into a draft report. The public will have another opportunity to review that draft before it is finalized. The review process is expected to take place over the next 3 to 6 months, with more opportunity for input from the community along the way.
The RDFFG plans to put the results of the survey and planning documents on its website regularly throughout the review process.
The survey can be accessed here.
Comments
Maybe its time to have a good look at how other communities handle their garbage solutions.
https ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiEaDi689wc
Powell River had an incinerator which they started Monday mornings with natural gas and once the temperature came up, they didn’t need the gas. It was all self combusting for all their municipal garbage. They didn’t even need a landfill.
Many countries use incinerators for garbage that run steam plants for district heating and a bit of electrical generation. Residual waste goes down to nearly 4% of original volume. The tree hugggers hate it.
Well if they install scrubbers to clean the emissions from burning garbage (and reclaim some of the heat from the exhaust stream) then burning makes sense, especially if a secondary process (eg. steam) is exploited.
Our local landfill already has a methane gas collection system that could partially fuel an incinerator.
metalman.
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