Overview of solid waste management practices and history of NYC waste management

1. Recycling, Climate Change & Green Energy: Your Waste Makes a Difference! Presenter: Jeremy Abramowitz

6. Greenhouse Gas Basics: Waste Sector

7. Other Sectors Impacted by Changes in Waste Management Practices

8. Puente Hills 50 Megawatt Boiler, Los Angeles Largest Landfill Gas Power Plant in U.S.

9. Innovative Use for Landfill Gas: Green Vehicle Fuel Liquid carbon dioxide wash for pre-compression cleanup Fueling station for CNG-powered cars & trucks, Franklin County, OH landfill

10. Innovative Use for Landfill Gas: Fuel Cells Solid Oxide Fuel Cell powered by landfill gas, Finland

11. Landfill Operations Daily Production & Compaction Gas Treatment Gas Flaring Leachate Treatment Daily Cover Gas/Condensate Monitoring & Collection

12. Landfill Compactors: Heavy Duty Did you know? A landfill compactor can weigh up to 120,000 pounds! Imagine 1,000 of today’s presenter jumping up and down on a pile of trash…

13. Landfill Reuse: Turning a Liability into an Asset Park Ridge Golf Course, Palm Beach, FL, formerly Lantana Road Landfill

14. Landfill Reuse: Renewable Energy Wind power installed at a landfill in China Solar Energy Cover replaces traditional closed landfill cover, Tessman Road Landfill outside San Antonio, TX

16. Advantages and Challenges of Energy from Waste 58 megawatt Waste-to-Energy power plant, expanded in 2007 (FL) 1.4 gigawatt coal power plant, closed in 2005 (NV) Vs.

17. WTE Operations: Receiving Pit & Crane

18. WTE Operations: Sorting Refuse Derived Fuel

19. WTE Operations: Combustion Grates

20. WTE Operations: Boiler System

21. WTE Operations: Turbine & Electrical Generator

22. WTE Operations: District Energy Did you know? 70% of the buildings in downtown Detroit, MI are heated and cooled by the Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Facility

23. WTE Operations: Air Pollution Controls Scrubbers Continuous Emissions Monitoring System Fabric Filter Baghouses

24. WTE Operations: Controls & Emissions Monitoring

25. WTE Operations: Ash Management

26. WTE Operations: Ferrous Metal Recycling

27. WTE Operations: Non-Ferrous Metal Recycling

28. Emerging Technology: Waste Conversion 100 ton-per-day Ottawa plasma arc gasification demonstration facility: Cleaner, Better, More Efficient …perhaps

29. 450 Ton per Day Mechanical Biological Waste Treatment Facility, Germany

33. The Three Rs of Recycling Plus One! Reduce Recycle Reuse RECOVER

36. Recycling Operations: Sorting & Baling Paper

37. What can be recycled: Some Plastics… Many recyclers do not take plastic bags, styrofoam, and certain other plastics. Find out if your recycler accepts it before you toss it in the bin

38. Recycling Operations: Sorting & Baling Plastic Containers

41. Recycled Asphalt Pavement Millings

42. Toilet Bowls Crushed into Construction Aggregate

45. Making Connections: A Brief History of Waste Management in and around New York City

46. Fresh Kills Municipal Landfill, Staten Island Picture of Fresh Kills taken c.1990, operated 1948-2001

47. Fresh Kills Municipal Landfill c. 2008 Site Remediation in Progress

48. Fresh Kills Gas Recovery Since 1999 Methane from the closed landfill is sold as heating fuel and used to heat up to 22,000 homes

49. Planned: Fresh Kills Park

50. Smaller Landfills in NYC Closed 1970-2000 Closed landfill in the Bronx, planned as future golf course Jamaica Bay Landfill Superfund site, Queens

51. Article Published 1919 WTE plants operate in NYC 1908-1993

52. Today: Remote Disposal Modern landfill in New Jersey overlooking Manhattan

53. Essex County Resource Recovery Facility Newark, NJ 2800 tons per day WTE

54. Wheelabrator Bridgeport, CT 2250 TPD WTE

55. Brooklyn Wastewater Digester Opened 2008

56. New York City Recycles More info: New York City Department of Sanitation www.nyc.gov/dsny

57. Electronics Recycling in NYC

59. Questions???