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Portland Observer, August 7, 1985, Page 3 AFS office moves Metro explores waste management alternatives by Robert L o t hum Metro, the inter-government agcn cy in charge o f Portland’s garbage, must come up with a waste reduction plan by January 1st. The St. Johns Landfill is filling up, new landfills are unpopular these days, and so M etro is looking at alter natives such as mass incineration, fuel recovery, recycling, and com posting. Unfortunately, all methods o f dis posing o f the foul stuff seem to have their problems The agency is between a rock and a hard spot — whatever alternative it comes up with is likely to be unpopular with someone. And the memory o f Oregon City voters reject ing a Metro-backed garbage burner in 1982 is still fresh. Metro's decision w ill be made out in the open, first with a public process o f defining alternatives, and then gathering public input with hearings and surveys. As the first step, the agency spoil sored a conference August 2 - 3 at the M etro office near PSU. Representa tives o f over a dozen companies o u t lined their specialties — mass inciner ation and electrical generation, incin eration at sea, producing fuel cubes from organic waste, recycling, and cellulose conversion to ethanol. One or m or" o f these companies may be awarded a m ulti-m illion dollar con tract . Mass incineration was explained by Mark Hepp o f Signal Environmental Systems. First, he said, trucks dump the refuse into a huge covered pit. Cranes pick it up by the ton and drop it on a conveyor which takes it into a furnace. The heat from combustion drives a boiler which makes steam to drive a turbine-generator. Hepp showed slides of his compa ny's plants back east that generate 40 - 60 kilowatts o f electricity, helping to pay for themselves. Another ad vantage, he said, is that large non combustible items like refrigerators and engine blocks can go through the furnace. They come out the other end with the ash. But what to do with the hundreds o f tons o f ash? A market might be found for it, but until then, it ’ s an en vironmental hazard. A ir and water pollution are other possibilities. "T he bulk o f all products o f combustion are discharged into the atmosphere" — expensive scrubbers are needed to filter dangerous chemical pollutants, he said. Some screening system is also needed to separate hazardous matnals from the burned material Hepp downplayed the environ mental hazards o f burning. "T h e health effects o f resource recovery arc minimal. There arc plants all over the world, plants in operation for 30 years, and some o f them in residential neighborhoods." His slides, however, showed plants far from urban areas, necessitating transfer stations. According to tieorge Gaiver, o f C .A .G . partnership in Texas, transfer stations are unnecessary when gar bage is made into his company's spe cialty, fuel cubes. Gaiscr said a “ refuse-derived fuel fa cility” could be built in the back corner o f an existing dump close to urban areas. I he garbage is shredded and com pressed into fuel after large items, metal, glass, and things that could ex plode — such as propane tanks — are separated, he said. Hans van Steiger o f Combustion Engineering, Inc., Stamford, Conn., underlined his message that fuel cube plants are clean by showing a slide o f one near downtown Madison, Wise. He said a propane tank exploded in the shredder at the Madison plant re cently, causing a one-day shutdown. The shredder is built into a reinforced concrete bunker, he said. "W h ile the shredder is operating, no one is al lowed inside the room W hen explo sions occur, and they do occur, the building is isolated." 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By incorporating an incentive pro gram into existing probation policies, a juvenile offender could acquire needed stKial skills and, at the same time, complete the terms o f his or her probation W ith the addition ot a program designed to provide a means to reduce the time a child would stay on probation, probation officers would realize a reduction in their case loads. Incentives could be designed to provide a reduction in tune on proba lion for: successfully completing a G .F .D . program; maintaining a bank account; extended periods o f cm ployment, and successful completion o f a public speaking course. There ate numerous community based pro grams and agencies in existence which could provide the necessary facilities and structured environment without a great addition to the cost o f mam taming a child on probation. It is the position o f U H U R U SA SA that these suggestions would ci, hance the effectiveness o f programs which are in operation at this lime, while realizing the problems brought about because o f lack o f tunds and personnel. U H U R U SA SA feels juvenile crime should be the prim ary concern o f the community. By involving coni munity based organizations and pro grams, the problems can be more ef fectively dealt with. OIDI RADIO. IV E AtCDAD CO Northwest » Lorg«»’ C o tp « l B e c o rd A Top« A u t h o r is e d C\>!or < LASHAY'S PLACE I AM ERICAN STATE BANK ■ W i ll * ft M R A l OWMXIT MSUAAMCI C O R K .» *'» » « H e are appalled lhat the South African government has retreated even further into the dark night o f oppression and racial bigotry. I he latest edict strips South Africans o f virtually anv protection whatever fro m the arbitrary whim o f a des perate and despotic government and places their very lives in extreme jeop ardy. •Is Americans and as Jews we can not sit by silently while this moral calamity is acted out on the body of a helpless population, th e South African declaration o f a slate o f emergency demands an emergency response on the part o f our own gov ernment blow that "constructive en gagement” has produced this horren dous result it is time fo r more sen ous, stringent, and severe measures, /he South African government must not be allowed to doubt the condem nation o f their acts b y the people o f the United States People whose parents suffer from high blood pres sure are more prone to it than those whose parents did not. • If the inside of the arteries b ecome stiff or clogged from fat or cholesterol deposits, the heart must pump harder and blood pressure then rises. • Weight loss, regular exercise, and reduction of dietary salt and smoking are the most common non drug steps taken to lower high blood pressure. 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