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| Resource Recovery Project Begins Environmental Review | |
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Today (11/13/2012), the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved private consulting contracts that formally begin the environmental review of the Resource Recovery Project which would increase recycling, provide compost, generate green energy and reduce future greenhouse gas emissions related to the management of the communities’ solid waste. Read More |
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| Santa Barbara debates Conversion Technology | |
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THE DAILY SOUND: By NICK C. TONKIN · June 20, 2012 · The Santa Barbara City Council began its first day pondering the use of a new technique to reduce landfill waste. At the first of a two-part workshop yesterday the council heard about the benefits of new composting technology known as Anaerobic Digestion or AD. City environmental services manager Matt Fore said the method, which utilizes a special facility to extract biogases from organic waste, could be a much more cost efficient way of reducing garbage going through the Tajiguas landfill. Read More |
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| Santa Barbara to talk turning trash into energy today | |
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THE DAILY SOUND: By Cody Brumbaugh · June 19, 2012 When City officials meet today and Thursday, they will be discussing a vast waste management process that would extend the life of a landfill, create clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses. A new plant at the Tajiguas Landfill would be constructed to use anaerobic digestion of materials to create heat and convert that to energy thus reclaiming wasted resources. “It’s the equivalent of taking 22,000 cars off the road,” said Matt Fore, the city’s environmental services manager. “It generates a Kilowatt of clean energy that would power the plant leaving the remaining power to go out to the grid and could power up to 800 homes.” Read More |
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| Santa Barbara Independent October 31, 2011 | |
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Vendor Picked in Gas-for-Trash Scheme Anaerobic Digester Gets Nod as Conversion Technology for Tajiguas Landfill Project
After years of talking, scheming, and dreaming about fitting the Tajiguas Landfill with an ambitious trash-to-energy conversion technology, Santa Barbara County trash czars have settled on a plan that will generate less political opposition than competing technologies that pack more diversionary punch. They've also settled on a development team of businesspeople out of San Luis Obispo County —Mustang Renewable Power Ventures. Fueling the push for this new energy technology is an abiding concern that the permitted dumping space left at the landfill — which handles most of the South Coast's trash — is rapidly being filled up. While the technology chosen, anaerobic digestion, will extend the lifespan of the landfill significantly less than its main rival — gasification — it faces far fewer political hurdles.
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| Establishing a Resource Recovery Park at Tajiguas Landfill | |
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This fall, the County of Santa Barbara Department of Public Works in partnership with the cities of Santa Barbara, Goleta, Buellton and Solvang, will be proposing a comprehensive resource recovery park that will address the challenges of managing our community’s waste and completely change the way we operate the Tajiguas Landfill. Since the Tajiguas Landfill was last expanded in 2002, the County Public Works staff has been looking into alternatives to landfilling. This Resource Recovery Park proposal is a culmination of research that has included two feasibility studies, a request for proposals, a proposal review process and a comprehensive public outreach effort that has included over 80 presentations to stakeholders over the past five years. Read More |
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| Four Companies Submit Proposals to Provide Trash to Energy Conversion Technology | |
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After a three year process including the development of a feasibility report, extensive public outreach, and an extensive request for proposal (RFP) process, four companies have submitted formal proposals to build and operate a conversion technology facility to process solid waste currently being disposed at the Tajiguas Landfill.
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| County seeks ways to convert waste to energy | |
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Valley Journal, February 21-February 27, 2008
Santa Barbara County could soon be giving new meaning to "Living Green" with its latest efforts to find new ways of converting solid waste into sustainable energy. Read More |
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| Trash to energy: The time is now | |
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Santa Barbara News Press
It's been six years now that we've been discussing on these pages the need for local government officials to get serious about turning trash into energy. Read more. (link to article) |
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| County Considers Solid Waste Conversion Alternatives - Noozhawk | |
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In an effort to curtail the amount of trash that gets dumped at the Tajiguas Landfill, Santa Barbara County’s Public Works Department is looking at ways to process the waste before it gets buried.
“Since 1990 our population has gone up 18 percent,” said Mark Schleich, Public Works’ deputy director. “But our waste generation has gone up 54 percent.” Read More |
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| Leaders to move forward with Tajiguas project - October 15, 2007 | |
| A potential waste conversion facility at Tajiguas Landfill will be up for discussion by both Santa Barbara city leaders and the County Board of Supervisors tomorrow as they decide on moving forward with a feasibility study of the project. Read More | |
| Juicing the Dump - March 8, 2007 | |
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High Tech Plan to Convert Garbage to Electricity Gets Nod It was one of those weird, mysterious moments when players accustomed to butting heads and locking horns stumbled accidentally into a state of agreement that could add decades to the life of the South Coast’s landfill, produce enough clean energy to power 3,000 households, keep methane out of the atmosphere, and increase recycling and diversion by about 75 percent. Read More |