Summary: Waste and Energy Implications
Goal: Obtain data and decision-support tools; and using life-cycle analysis, develop recommendations for (1) use of waste materials for creation of locally-needed products; and/or (2) power production. Consider examples of other communities (i.e., the City of Bern, Switzerland uses methane extracted from municipal sewage sludge to power city buses.)
Subcommittee Reports
Challenge: Both energy and money are expended in the collection and ultimate disposal of discards, and the reuse of recyclables. Each component of the waste stream possesses a different energy potential and environmental hazards associated with power production.
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