On 10/27/2011 5:01 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: > Back when I lived in PA, our township was considering one of these > monstrosities (built by the same company as Harrisburg's). A few of us > concerned citizens of the township went down to Harrisburg to see for > ourselves the wonderments of trash incinerators. They showed us some of the > "ash" from a recent burn. They brought out a front-end loader shovel full > and it consisted of hardly charred, let alone incinerated items. There were > phone books where the covers were hardly even singed, and other fully > recognizable items that show to be no worse for where from the incineration > process. Maybe it had to do with their definition of incineration: to be > exposed to a temperature of 2200 degrees F for 2 seconds. Someone told us a > match flame burns at about 2000F, and I think you could put nearly anything > in that for 2 seconds and not be incinerated. > > To make a long story short, we fought the company that wanted to build the > incinerator for several years. We were only able to have it stopped when > the incinerator owners and the landfill for the "ash" couldn't agree to who > would post the $25MM bond because the "ash" was considered hazardous waste. > It never got built. We fought this from about 1990 to 1993, and moved out > of PA in 1997.
Fred -- when did you live there and where? I used to live in Pine Grove, PA--about an hour north of Harrisburg--before I moved to Baltimore in late 2007. I'll never go back there to PA if I can help it. The only appeal for me is that the housing costs there are 1/2 of here in MD, but even still, that's not enough reason for me to go back there. I made the best of it, but I prefer MD so much more. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
