04-02-2024, 10:27 PM
(04-02-2024, 05:43 AM)ac3r Wrote: Once it's completely full, they have considered building a waste to energy incineration facility which I think would be a great idea. One caveat is that they think that would require accepting waste from other municipalities to make it worth the cost. That will likely become a messy political and policy obstacle, because the idea of importing waste from elsewhere is always a hard sell to the public. Environmentalists and commies won't like that idea, but then again they don't really have any ideas in the first place. I think it would be a good investment to use, while also working on programs for waste reduction and recycling improvements. It would surely be better than having to open up what would become the 9th landfill in the region.
I wondered whether there would be any sense in building some sort of waste eater that could have the first goal to consume the Region's annual waste output, but then to ultimately eliminate the existing landfill. The Erb St site could also be modified to allow rail traffic in for the importation of waste. The waste eater could be any number of of technologies. Heck, maybe even partner with the universities to come up with a new technology (eg waste-to-energy, or an incinerator... or something that sends it to the multiverse).