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Inside Solid Waste, Volume 79, Summer, 2014
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Inside Solid Waste Volume 78, Spring, 2014
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Inside Solid Waste, Volume 77, Winter 2014
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Conversion Technology Six-Month Status Update
Click here for the Six-Month Status Update (April 2013 to October 2013) from the Department of Public Works to the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors on the advancement of conversion technology development in Los Angeles County.
If you have questions, please contact Ms. Tranette Sanders at (626) 458-3562 or tsanders@dpw.lacounty.gov.
LA Abandons Quest for 20,000-ton-per-day Eagle Mountain Landfill
From WasteBusinessJournal.com
Date: May 22, 2013
Source: Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
The Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County has abandoned its 13-year quest to develop a mammoth rail-served landfill at Eagle Mountain, about 100 miles to the east, near the Joshua Tree National Park. The site is currently owned by Ontario-based Mine Reclamation Corp. (MRC). The 4,654-acre landfill would have taken up to 20,000 tons of waste per day brought by rail from communities in Los Angeles County. The fate of the site, which was formerly an iron mine owned by Kaiser Steel, has been disputed and litigated since the early 90s. Kaiser Steel declared bankruptcy in 1987. Its successor company, Kaiser Ventures, now owns a majority interest in MRC.
The Sanitation Districts decision to Continue reading
Inside Solid Waste, Volume 74, Spring, 2013
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Closing L.A. County’s Largest Landfill
CalRecycle Response to County Task Force Clarifying Roles & Responsibilities of SCL-LEA December 2010
Waste Conversion in California: Defining the Problem
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For those of us who have wondered just how California has managed to move itself to the back row of states looking to increase their diversion rates by means of conversion technologies, allow me to share with you the thoughts of the Los Angeles County Solid Waste Management Committee Integrated Waste Management Task Force on the matter.
In a letter to Ms. Caroll Mortensen, director of the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (formerly the California Integrated Waste Management Board), Margaret Clark, vice-chair of the Los Angeles County Solid Waste Management Committee/ Integrated Waste Management Task Force, presented its proposal for overcoming definitional road blocks:
Task Force Adopts Key Definitions and New Solid Waste Management Paradigm
On September 20, 2012, the Los Angeles County Solid Waste Management Committee/Integrated Waste Management Task Force (Task Force) adopted definitions for the terms “recovery” and “conversion technologies” as well as the “New Waste Management Paradigm.” For years, a variety of terms and solid waste management hierarchies have been used by Continue reading