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."
Plants and equipment designed by
Combustion Engineering, including
nuclear power plants, generate 40 per
cent o f the free world's electricity,
said Von Steiger.
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Jewish Congress condemns
South African policies
I he American Jewish Congrcsv
(A l l ) condemned the South African
government lor stripping South A f-
ncans " o f virtually any protection
whatever from the arbitrary whim of
a desperate and despotic govern
ment.”
In a statement issued by its previ-
dent, I heodore K Mann, and its
associate executive director, Phil
Baum, AJL deviated that as "A m e r
icans and Jews we cannot sit by silent
ly while Ithis moral calamity is acted
out on (he body o f a helpless popu
latton."
The text ol the statement follows:
lectivc experience, U H U R U SA SA
feels a Directional Therapy type pro
gram would be effective in discourag
ing future criminal involvement.
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.
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•Is Americans and as Jews we can
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to lower number of youthful offenders
The men o f U H U R U SA SA. a
prison based organization, are pres
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innovative Youth Crime Diversion
Program. It is the organization’s
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o f the problems that have been un
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