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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Prisoner organization offers suggestions
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
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