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Developers Rolton Kilbride said there had been "misinformation" about the plant's safety and cleanliness.Managing director Andrew Needham said from "health to the environment, there is professional and accepted research to support our plans"."We understand that there will objections but we are concerned about the levels of misinformation, particularly on social media," he said. "Much of this relates to historic operations in the UK waste sector - modern thermal treatment technology now is far superior in terms of safety and cleanliness."The plant would operate continuously, seven days a week, processing up to 215,000 tonnes of non-hazardous municipal, commercial and industrial waste a year.This would be converted into gas to be burned to create steam to drive turbines producing electricity and heat.Shlomo Dowen, the national co-ordinator of the United Kingdom Without Incineration Network, which is supporting campaigners, said there were a "whole range of concerns"."Something in the region of seven to eight million tonnes" of carbon dioxide would be released during the plant's life span, he said.Mr Dowen also claimed there was evidence that incineration of waste harmed recycling rates.Four letters of support for the scheme have been submitted to Sunderland City Council by car manufacturer Nissan, the authority's business investment team and two residents. An online petition has been set up and a paper version with more than 9,000 signatures will... (BBC News)
City Hall Park to test the technology of the Bigbelly waste and recycling system. Manufactured by Needham, Mass.-based company Bigbelly, these smart bins use solar power to drive an internal trash compactor, which increases the units' capacity as much as fivefold. The problem with the old open-top garbage cans, says Bridges, was that if someone stuffed in, say, four pizza boxes, the bin would seem full despite having extra capacity. As a consequence, trash cans would often overflow with garbage and get cross-contaminated with recyclable materials. The smart bins also address a second, information-related problem. In the past, Bridges says, his maintenance crews spent hours driving around the city to check and empty hundreds of trash barrels. Some, like those on Church Street and the waterfront, would fill up several times a day, while those in more remote areas, such as Ethan Allen Park, could go days or weeks before needing to be emptied. To make such routine checks unnecessary, each Bigbelly waste bin is outfitted with internal sensors and wireless technology. They automatically alert maintenance workers via email when the bin is nearly full — putting a whole new spin on the phrase "junk mail." The technology has demonstrated its longer-term value, Bridges points out, as the city has replaced conventional trash cans with smart bins elsewhere. Following the success of the first two bins in City Hall Park, Seventh Generation donated $25,000 to the city to buy another five Bigbelly receptacles for the Burlington waterfront. Then, about two years ago, the city leased, rather than bought, several dozen more Bigbelly bins to deploy to outlying areas. Today, Bridges says, Burlington has about 40 of the receptacles citywide, each of which records data about how often the bin is filled and emptied and then transmits that data to the cloud. Like Burlington Electric Department's smart meters, smart waste bins provide the city with reams of information that can improve efficiency, maximize recycling and minimize the environmental impacts of waste management. As for cost savings, Bigbelly's marketing material claims that its smart-bin technology, which is now employed in every state and nearly 50 countries, can reduce a municipality's waste-management expenses by as much as 80 percent. Bridges notes that, so far, his staff hasn't crunched those numbers. "For us," he says, "it was really about adding capacity to be dealing with other things." He points out that the parks department alone oversees more than 500 acres of property, while the Department of Public Works maintains miles of streets, sidewalks and rights-of-way. Minimizing the need to check garbage cans every day allows city workers to focus on different tasks. "It definitely has a cleaner look," Bridges says of the smart bin. "There's not a cost s...
