SWMAC Meeting - Tuesday, May 27 at 6:30pm

Marion County Solid Waste Advisory Committee (SWMAC) will be meeting on Tuesday May 27 at 6:30 p.m. at the Marion County Public Works Building on Silverton Road NE. Public testimony will be taken at the beginning of the meeting for 15 minutes.

Each speaker is suggested to take about 3 minutes. 

This meeting's agenda includes a discussion of the third chapter in the Solid Waste Management Master Plan. The chapter deals with recycling efforts. This meeting and the next will look at what is current happening and what new opportunities might be worth exploring for future efforts to reduce the waste going to the incinerator.

Jeff Bickford, staff for Marion County Environmental Services that oversees SWMAC, said that the county has purchased a larger magnet that is designed to help pick up more ferris metals from the waste. This new magnet will hopefully pay for itself in about 6 months due to the high value of metals in the recycling business.

The consultant for Marion County suggested at the last meeting that from 25 to 50 percent more materials could be reclaimed or recycled from the waste stream. This included paper, metals, non-organic and organic materials.

It was suggested that it would be a good issue for someone to study the economics of pulling these materials for recycling.

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Waste-CAN is working on tracking Marion County's update of their Master Plan for Municipal Waste. This process will be continuing over the next 6 months through the Marion County Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee (SWMAC). The committee meets every 4th Tuesday of the month and will be discussing a new chapter each month. You can see the original plan at the Marion County Environmental Services website and the proposed changes at the SWMAC web link. To learn more go to http://www.kaltwasser.com/wastecan

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the continuing absence of any epidemiological or environmental studies of the effect of the toxic emissions on human health or the natural environment downwind from the WTEF, the value of using the accumulation of multiple years of WTEF toxic emissions, as well as the environmental toxins from other sources, as part of the equation to determine what the WTEF permit limits should be, the absence of any monitoring at all for a number of other toxins that are almost certainly emitted from the WTEF, and the unnecessarily high limits set for some toxins.

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