April 2019 | Vol. 13 Iss. 04 factory seconds blowout!
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By Mimi Darley Dutton | m.dutton@mycityjournals.com
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hat if, rather than paying for your recycling to be processed and your garbage to be hauled away to a Utah landfill, you could have your garbage and recycling processed for free, turned into an alternative fuel source and bypass the problem of a landfill altogether? That was the offer made to the Draper City Council at the Feb. 19 meeting by B&D Development. The company is seeking an agreement with Draper City to handle both Draper’s waste and recycling. B&D representatives explained that it would have to be both. Their plan involves selling what recyclable materials they can and then processing the remaining waste into pellets that can be burned in old coal-burning plants. Steve Price, CEO of B&D, participated in the meeting via telephone. He said depending on which cities participate, B&D would potentially build a location in Herriman. Price said he has the authority to develop this technology in the U.S., that Utah State Senator Curt Bramble (R-Provo) has recently joined B&D, and that this technology has existed in Germany for over 20 years. Draper City would only need to pay for the materials to be transported to the B&D site for processing. Twenty-two Utahns traveled to Germany last September to see the process themselves, including Draper City Council members Mike Green and Alan Summerhays. “It’s impressive,” Green said. Draper City paid for both to make that trip. Recyclable materials end up in landfill At the Feb. 19 city council meeting, it was disclosed that much of what Draper residents think is being recycled is ac-
As much as 50 percent of what Draper residents thought they were recycling is instead going to the Trans-Jordan Landfill.(Photo courtesy of Trans Jordan Landfill)
tually ending up in the landfill. That is because the world of recycling — and which plastics, papers and metals there is a market for reselling worldwide — has changed. The problem is compounded when one person does a thorough job of
cleaning and sorting what can be recycled, but their neighbor throws items in their recycle bin that don’t qualify as recyclable, thus contaminating that whole load and forcing it to be taken to the landfill. Continue on page 4...
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