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Grassroonts Recycling Network National Recycling and Zero Waste Conference Devens Massachusetts• October 2009. by Peter Anderson, Executive Director Center for a Competitive Waste Industry. Lies, Damnable Lies and Landfills. A tale of two futures. Where do compostables belong. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Grassroonts Recycling Grassroonts Recycling NetworkNetwork
National Recycling and Zero National Recycling and Zero Waste ConferenceWaste Conference
Devens Massachusetts• October 2009
by Peter Anderson, Executive DirectorCenter for a Competitive Waste Industry
A tale of two A tale of two futuresfutures
Where do Where do compostables compostables
belongbelong
Paper31.1%
Food13.6%
Yard9.6%
Wood7.0%
Inorganic38.7%
in U.S. in 1998Components of MSW
Organics=61.3%
GreenwashingGreenwashing
GreenwashingGreenwashing
IgnoredIgnored Most Uncontrolled. More
than 3/4th of the gases produced or mobilized in a landfill are, over its life, released uncontrolled into the atmosphere
Source of methane. There would not be substantial volumes of uncontrolled methane produced from garbage were we to discontinue disposing of our organic discards deep in lined landfills
andand reducing reducing methane is vital to methane is vital to
avoid crossing avoid crossing irreversible tipping irreversible tipping
pointspoints“[F]easible reversal of the growth of
[methane] would provide a vital contribution toward averting dangerous anthropogenic interference with global climate...[Methane] deserves special attention in efforts to stem global warming...Given the difficulty of halting near-term CO2 growth, the only practical way to avoid [dangerous interference] with climate may be simultaneous efforts to reverse the growth of [methane].”
─James Hansen Greenhouse gas growth rates, Nov 16 ‘06 PNAS
A tale of two A tale of two landfillslandfills
Landfill Decomposition
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1 0
Time (yrs)
Anaerobic Bioreactor Landfill
Dry Tomb Landfill (dry site)
Containment Failure
Gas/
Leach
ate
G
enera
tion
5.4
21.7
1.4
5.8
# Times Diversion Gain Exceeds LFGTE
Low-20%
High-78%80% Diversion
20% Diversion
in the Long-Term*Diversion's Advantage Over LFGTE
*GWP=25
15
60
4
16
# Times Diversion Gain Exceeds LFGTE
Low-20%
High-78%80% Diversion
20% Diversion
in the Short-Term*Diversion's Advantage Over LFGTE
*GWP=25
2%
24%
-74%
-28%
-7%
Coll Eff
CH4 Ratio
ICE Destruct
Avoided CO2
Industry
at Existing Landfills in Long-TermEnergy v. Flaring
(Blue bar indicates energy advantageous; red, disadvantageous)
0%
10%
-93%
-42%
-11%
Coll Eff
CH4 Ratio
ICE Destruct
Avoided CO2
Industry
at Existing Landfills in Short-TermEnergy v. Flaring
(Blue bar indicates energy advantageous; red, disadvangeous)
Landfills’ true Landfills’ true impact on impact on
greenhouse gasesgreenhouse gases
2%
8%
12%
EPA VersionCorrected Capture
Considering Short Term
The other future is The other future is to stop burying to stop burying
organicsorganicsEuropean Commission 1999
Landfill Directive “Waste and treatment not
acceptable in landfills. “1. Member States shall set up a
national strategy for the implementation of the reduction of biodegradable waste going to landfills …not later than 15 years after the date laid down in Article 18(1), biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills must be reduced to 35% of the total amount (by weight) of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995 or the latest year…”
and, in and, in North North
America,America,124 Cities …124 Cities …
HaywardHealdsburgLivermoreMcFarland
ModestoMorgan Hill
NewarkNorth Hollywood
OaklandOro Loma Sanitary
DistrictPetaluma
PleasantonPortola ValleyRohnert Park
San Fernando San Francisco
San Juan Bautista San LeandroSan LorenzoSanta RosaSebastopol
Sonoma (City)Sonoma County
StocktonUnion City
Walnut CreekWindsor
Woodside
Midwest (4)Ann Arbor, MI
Carver County, MN Cedar Rapids, IA
Dubuque, IAHutchinson, MNLinn County, IA
Wayzata, MNNortheast (5)
Cambridge, MACentral VT Waste Mgt.
District Greensboro, VTLewistown, ME
Northeast Kingdom, VT
South (1)Plano, TX
Sarasota, FLWashington (12)
Bellevue, WABellingham, WA
Bothell, WACarnation, WAIssaquah, WA
King County, WAKirkland, WA
Newcastle, WARedmond, WA
Sammamish, WA
Seattle, WA Woodinville, WA
British Columbia (1)Mission
New Brunswick (2)Moncton
FrederictonNova Scotia (41)
Annapolis CountyAnnapolis Royal
Antigonish Argyle
BaddeckBarrington
BerwickBridgetown
Bridgewater Cape Breton
Chester DistrictClare
Colchester CountyCumberland Co.
DigbyGreenwood
Halifax RegionalHants Co.
Inverness Co. Kentville
Kings CountyLawrencetown
Lunenburg Mahone Bay
New Glasgow New Minas Parrsboro Pictou Co.
Port Hawkesbury Queens County
Richmond CountyRiver John Shelburne
Town of Amherst
Town of BerwickTown of Oxford
TrentonVictoria County
Windsor Wolfville
YarmouthOntario (8)
BracebridgeCaledonGuelph
KingstonMarkham
Niagara Region
St. ThomasToronto
Quebec (3)Regie Argenteuil
Chertsey Laval
CarpCarpe e
diemdiem
Contact InformationContact Information
Peter AndersonCenter for a Competitive Waste
Industry313 Price Place ∙ Suite 14Madison, WI 53705-4964
(608) 231-1100Fax (608) 233-0011Cell (608) 444-2817
Toll Free (800) [email protected]