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February 21, 2008
City of Kankakee Raises Garbage Fees. Mayor Green Blames County Instead Of Himself.
The February 20 Daily Journal reported Mayor Green and the City Council raised the garbage fee to city residents. Mayor Green put the blame for raising the garbage fee on the County because they fought the City over their proposed Barbara-Volini garbage dump. Nothing was said about the City of Kankakee going to bid for garbage hauling service as other communities in the area do. Mayor Green also did not mention the campaign donations to his last mayoral campaign by the City's garbage hauler.
He fails to understand that in today's world with $100 a barrel oil, garbage is far too valuable to bury so not having a garbage dump is not a problem. It also means the Kankakee River water shed is free of thousands of chemicals that would be buried in a garbage dump as Mayor Green wants to do.
It is the POWER supported law suit under POWER supporter Byron Sandberg's name that has stopped the second application for the City of Kankakee proposed garbage dump with Barbara-Volini. Barbara-Volini has appealed but the Appellate Court has not heard the case. The appeal was filed well over a year ago. Barbara-Volini's first application for their dump proposal was defeated at the Illinois Supreme Court by the County. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled the Barbara-Volini proposed garbage dump failed to protect the health and safety of the community. Kankakee County residents should be thankful that the County Board fought this proposal all the way to the Supreme Court and therefore protected the area's water supply i.e. the river and deep aquifer from garbage leachate.
Check out the list of waste to energy companies below especially Coskata, Inc. in Warrenville, Illinois. Why doesn't Green try to land one of these companies and put the City of Kankakee on the map as a very progressive city?
Click here to read National Landfill Expert Dr. G. Fred Lee's Study Of The Mayor Green, City of Kankakee Backed Garbage Dump.. Click here to read information about the dangers to the area water supply.
The information below is furnished by POWER www.k3power.org
High Tech Alternatives To Garbage Dumps!
POWER is working to rid our country of toxic landfills and to supplant the age old practice of burying garbage with the new waste to energy technologies. Through the employment of the new technologies, this country can permanently free itself from dependence on foreign oil and make toxic landfills a thing of the past. Landfills are the largest manmade source of methane gas emissions, roughly 8% of greenhouse gases. Here are just a few of the high tech alternatives to landfills that could be built in any industrial park in the Kankakee area.
1) Ethanol: Coskata, Inc., headquartered in Warrenville, IL. www.coskata.com. GM owns a significant share of this company. They convert municipal solid waste into ethanol. Gasification is combined with fermentation and separation to convert waste to ethanol for about a dollar per gallon.
2) Plasma Arc Gasification: Geoplasma, LLC. (Jacoby Group) www.geoplasma.com. They are building a 3000 ton per day garbage processor which evaporates loads of garbage in 5 seconds in St. Lucie County Fla. Output is electricity and building materials.
3) Plasma Conversion: Startech Environmental, headquartered in Oklahoma with a demo site in Wilton, CT. www.startech.net. They convert garbage into a high butane hydrogen gas which breaks materials down by de-grouping the various chemical compounds and converting them back to their elementary state. They have a plant in Japan and several more under construction throughout the world. They received Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Award, “The Best and the Brightest.” They were featured on ABC Morning News in April, 04.
4) Thermal Depolymerization: Changing World Technologies, headquartered in Long Island, New York. www.changingworldtech.com. They use garbage to produce oil. Any carbon based product may be converted. It is estimated that 700 million tons of garbage will produce 4 billion barrels of oil annually. This country disposes of over 20 billion tons of garbage per year. It converts waste products to oil in three hours using a process that takes nature hundreds of thousands of years to accomplish. They were featured in articles in Discovery Magazine, May of 03, Money Magazine June of 04 and they were a subject on CBS Evening News, Aug. 03.
5) Gasification: Ze-gen, headquartered in Boston, Ma. www.ze-gen.com. They were founded in 2004. Their technology focus is on changing the carbon content found in conventional solid waste streams into large volumes of zero-emissions syngas to generate electric.
6) Biomass/gasification: World Waste Technologies, headquartered in San Diego Ca.. www.worldwasteintl.com. Their first site is being built in Anaheim Ca. on a Republic Landfill Site. Reduces waste by 90% and sorts recyclables. They are presently building 4 plants in Northern California