01/17/1989 - Packet CITY OF TIGARD
UTILITIES AND FRANCHISE CCMMITTEE
MEETING AGENDA
TUESDAY, aNUARY 17, 1989, 7:00 P.M.
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1. Call to Order
2. Minutes of December 20, 1988 Meeting
3. Yard Debris
4. Storm Drainage Study Meeting
5. Other Business
6. Adjournment
A Burning Issue
Approximately 75 state-level 5 percent. At present, 45 billion However, incineration is not for
Extension personnel, representatives gallons of leachate per year are every community nor for every
from public and private agencies, generated. This can contaminate waste. An incinerator costs$100,000
and ES-USDA staff participated in not only our aquifers, a major for every ton of daily capacity.
the Solid Waste Management Work- source of potable and industrial Although incineration reduces the
shop held May 10-12, 1988 in St. water,but it can contaminate our quantity of wastes 99.9 percent, it
Louis to explore perspectives on soil, air, and surface water. generates hazardous wastes when
solid and hazardous waste manage- One of the biggest problems we the material burned consists of
ment technology and attendant face is that, while the public wants POCs(Principal Organic Constitu-
social,political, and regulatory their garbage and waste picked up, ents). Much of the burned waste
concerns. Sponsors were SCOP they do not want it set down, at will contain heavy metals, which
and the four regional centers for least not close to where they live, are concentrated mostly in the fly
rural development. Gene Carpen- work,and play. We suffer from the ash, but the bottom ash will also
ter, Extension Pesticide Coordina- NIMBY(Not in My Back Yard)or contain some residue, making it
for at the University of Idaho LULU(Local Undesirable Land hazardous. Since Congress has
attended the workshop as represen- Use)syndromes. ruled that no more hazardous
tative for WRDC and prepared the Therefore,the objectives of the Wastes will be disposed of by
following summary. workshop were: landfill after 1991,there are still
While the U.S. has a 1 percent unsolved problems with incineration.
population growth rate, the genera- 1. To give participants a broader To avoid being buried in waste or
tion of wastes increases at a rate of perspective of the problem. bankrupt by efforts to dispose of it,
2. To expand thoughts about
Below left:Norma Redeker,Family Economics educational programs. we have to educate ourselves to
Specialist,and Douglas Dunn,Extension Agent, reduce the production of wastes, to
University of Arizona.Below:Alan Schroeder, 3. To initiate planning programs re-use or re-cycle everything we
Extension specialist-Agriculture and Natural for education on a regional basis. can. This will require not only the
Resource Law,University of Wyoming. 4. To develop a functional net- education of the public, but of the
work of those concerned and industrial sector, which has taught
knowledgeable about solid and the consumer to expect the conve-
hazardous waste disposal. nience of disposable packaging.
We generate 228 million tons of
municipal waste per day. By 1990, To avoid being buried in
half of the cities in the U.S. will waste . . . we have to recycle
have no more capacity in present everything we can.
landfills. Cost of disposal of
municipal wastes has risen rapidly
for some of our more populous In order to reduce the waste
T4P cities. In Philadelphia, the cost of stream, we must re-use,re-cycle,
- ' disposal is$90 per ton, and further minimize, compost, and incinerate.
�s cost increases will be needed to Citizens must be encouraged to buy
fulfill the requirements of new recycled products. Charges for
federal regulations. disposal will be raised to encourage
There are plans to spend$30 re-use and complete utilization of
billion to build 100 incineration products, materials and food.
plants across the country. These Industry must assess its wastes
would be located close to metropol- and institute technological changes
itan areas(not in our low popula- in production that will reduce waste
tion areas)and would be expected generation. They must segregate
to burn the wastes generated within wastes, modify and maintain equip-
a radius of about 25-50 miles. ment, recover solvents, and plan
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for recycling. Someone suggesteSW sites, site location standards, dscaping of the abandoned
"Waste Exchange" which would corrective measures that must be landfill are estimated at$50,000,
provide access to materials for taken to bring sites up to standard, and installation and monitoring of
re-use across industries. financial requirements for the wells at$57,000, for a total of
Although municipal composting operation and closure of sites, and $207,000 to close the average
offers some answers, it also has real closure requirements. landfill. In twenty years the U.S. is
problems. In order to compost, a Villages,towns, cities, counties, expected to have a 90 percent reduc-
community must exercise meticu- and states must fulfill all the tion in the number of landfills.
lous segregation of wastes, because federal requirements without any Although I went to St. Louis
materials break down at different financial assistance from the fed- expecting to hear about hazardous
rates; even grass and leaves must be eral government. An EPA task wastes and the problems we face
separated. There must be a market force is supposed to have some with their disposal,the major
for the compost,or it will be more answers, or at least a beginning emphasis of the workshop was on
expensive than landfill, and in strategy, ready by this fall. solid wastes and unfortunately,
order to sell, the compost must be almost all of the solutions proposed
free of heavy metals(auto exhaust were those that only more populous
and other fallout from combus- In twenty years the U.S. is or high-tax-base communities can
tion), hazardous chemicals(phe- expected to have a 90 percent afford.
nols), cyanide, PCB, dioxans, reduction in the number of The role of Extension in assisting
organic phosphates, and hexavalent landfills. rural communities to establish
chromium. Composting facilities waste disposal systems is that of
can also generate some of the same education. Understanding of the
objectionable gases that are found Many small communities are problem should be the goal of
in landfills. going to be hurt financially by the Extension, not the acceptance of
Federal regulations require, or costs of closing their landfills. The any one disposal system. Extension
will require, double liners for all estimate for engineering a cap is can present the alternatives, assess
surface impoundments, identifica- $100,000.A cap consists of topsoil, needs, provide recycling informa-
tion of all former hazardous waste a filter fabric, drainage layer, biotic tion and training, and establish a
sites,monitoring of leachate beyond boundary, hydraulic protective reference bank of specialists. We
boundaries of disposal sites, per- layer, and whatever else is required must begin now to address the
mits for landfills,permits for above the waste to minimize many issues involved in this coun-
incincerators, and permits for all leaching,yet keep the waste moist try's waste disposal problems and
other facilities. New regulations enough to decompose. Many caps begin to create a society of
set forth the criteria for ground- will require a gas collection system waste-savers rather than waste-
water monitoring around disposal underneath the cap. Grading and makers.
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REFUSE COLLECTION AND RECYCLING: PRACTICES AND REGULATIONS
Waste management and recycling are rapidly emerging as important policy
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veyed jurisdiction's collection practices.
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