On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:49 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > We lived in Wind Gap, about 20 miles NE of Allentown, and 15 miles north of Easton from 1986-1997. Beautiful country, but I could never live there again. Fred --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ 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/cajcbksrd7bz1gmtfqqyv6rptnt5ym4zeu1svz_uankagta_...@mail.gmail.com ** 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.
