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The
dustry
for
offici and researchers are
trying to find alternative
methods to make dispoW more
efficient.
One
a
year.
The U.S. Environmental'
Protection Agency have
that nearly one third of the 6,500
pre ent I ndfill will close
. thin the next five years as solid
e continues to fill up.
The rate of De landfills is
declining due to local" opposi­
tion and alternative methods of
solid- te disposal,
POET .
In Michigan, the tate has
dopted hierarchy ystem of
five priorities to handle solid
te management problem .
highest priorities are e
reduction, reusable op ·0 and
rccyc1iDg.
e other two prioriti , in­
einera . on and landfill opera­
tio are only effective if the
first three are executed at the
same time. The 1988 Protecting
Michigan's Future BOnd
Program proposal puts $150
million into helping promote al­
ter tive to landfills by im­
plementing mar et de loping
and recycling so items can be
reu ed, aid Alan Howard,
Chief of Waste Management at
ehe Dep rtment of Natur
Resources.
'The most important thing to
remember about using incen­
diary methods is that it should
be integrated with an aggressive
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recycling and compo ing
programs," Howar said. "in­
cendiary buriug should DOt be
the only solution.·
He also said solid waste
landfills beeo e a threat to the
environment. Legist tion
directed t finding solutions to
solid aste management
prob ems, been introduced
by Rep. Carl F. Gnodtke,
"R.s wyer.
It would allow muni.cipaliti
to charge landfills a 10 ceDt tip­
piog fee to pay for the nega�
impact on communitic from
area landfills. The
municipalitie could use the
money in any y 4esired.
ASH OR ImLIZE
Gnodtke also believes incen­
diary ash could eventually be
used as a form of fertilizer.
"I'm a farmer, and I have had
this belief all along that there
must be a way to safely spread
incendiary ash over fannland,"
. Gnodtke said. "Even your most
�nsive fertilizers contain the
ingredients phosphorus,
nitrogen and pot ash.
There has to be a more effec­
tive way of economically remov­
ing something, rather than
burying it, here it is not of any .
benefit."
Lee W. Jacobs, crop and soil
sciences professor t Michigan
. State University, said the main
concern is the common metals
found in solid waste. Such as
cadmium found in batteries.
"If you were to look into the
soil and environment, you
would discover that most me
could be found in small
amount ," Jacob said. "The
concern is not to expose
humans to high leve of con­
centration.
"It also varies with what type
of metal you are going to be ex-
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of g rbage, experts say
posed to." He . d with any type
of cxperimeDtatioD tbcrc . be
risk, b each day add ore
more to the risk beea «
our consumer needs.
·Personally, I think more
recydinaand �ucation proces-
es, particuiarly elementary
education, will help more, bu if"
we cars and TVs we m
understand we add to the waste
au",.u.a. and have to dispose
of th of find a WIf/ to rccyde
them,. he said.
"Each of us needs to take a
moral responsibility in safe
aste management and pic
your part in society to see what
yo can do to help."
REUSE SAVES ABUSE
A treod that seems to be­
coming more and more evident
is that society appears to be
moving a y from tr ditional
methods, iuch as landfilling and
burning, and moving in the
direction of reuse, reduce aDd
recycle. ' .
. Cynthia Frid&eP, Associate
Program Director of Natural
. Resources and public policy at
Michigan State University, id
the best efforts reach a goal
of 50% recycling of the waste
stream,. if all throwaways were
used.
"We need to look at a balance
of waste management by using
all methods, such as composing.
incendiary means and recy­
cling. " she said. "It's a new way
of looking at garbage in a way
that the public has never 100 ed
at it before." ____