trash by existance not valume

[heironymouspasparagus]

Sounds like maybe we burn about 1 part for every 2 parts that the landfills get...?  Or about 1/3.

Doesn't sound like it is a capacity issue so much as that much of the trash won't 'burn'?  Plus, I'm thinking you have the better way to deal with plastic rather than burning.  How much plastic gets recycled here?

[RecycleMichael]

ask these questions on the other thread and I will answer

[Conan71]

Tulsa took 130,000 tons of residential waste to the burn plant last year. The plant had probably double that in commercial waste last year. The plant has three burners each rated at 375 tons per day for a maximum of 410,000 tons per year. The plant has never burned that much, but has had plenty of years where they processed 350,000 tons.

There are many landfills in the Tulsa area. The Waste Management owned landfill out east handles a little less than 300,000 tons from the region and the American Waste landfill out west handles about 200,000 tons per year. The remaining regional landfills handle about 100,000 tons per year combined.

RM, are you in a position to know of any plans or attempts to harness the landfill gas at any of the landfills in the area?  Bothers me to no end to drive past a landfill and see a flare sending waste heat into the atmosphere when it can have a useful purpose for a nearby industrial concern.

[RecycleMichael]

The east Tulsa landfill captures the gas and pipes it to the nearby concrete plant. The other landfills are working on similar collection plans.

[Townsend]

Can we split the useful parts of this thread over to Michael's thread?

[Conan71]

Can we split the useful parts of this thread over to Michael's thread?

Which thread is it?  I'll gladly hop over.

[Townsend]

Which thread is it?  I'll gladly hop over.

I think he wanted to use this one.  http://www.tulsanow.org/forum/index.php?topic=18687.msg228114#msg228114

[shadows]

Another bargain basement bargain to be given to the Tulsa Citizens such as 95 gallons carts for trash and recycles with only at a slight increase over the project price of trash removal.  The carts will hold some 570 lbs of wet trash that must be pushed out to the curb and positioned by hundreds of handicap and aged citizens of Tulsa.  Is there a chance that these carts will be equipped with battery operated self propelled motors enabling these groups to manage getting their carts in position?  Course these groups would expect to pay a slight increase for their trash service.       

[Conan71]

Another bargain basement bargain to be given to the Tulsa Citizens such as 95 gallons carts for trash and recycles with only at a slight increase over the project price of trash removal.  The carts will hold some 570 lbs of wet trash that must be pushed out to the curb and positioned by hundreds of handicap and aged citizens of Tulsa.  Is there a chance that these carts will be equipped with battery operated self propelled motors enabling these groups to manage getting their carts in position?  Course these groups would expect to pay a slight increase for their trash service.       

Don't fill your cart with water prior to pushing it to the curb and you should be okay.  Honestly, unless you have a bunch of grand or great grandchildren living with you I can't imagine you produce much waste at all.  My wife and I rarely fill one small can a week as it is now.

[Hoss]

Don't fill your cart with water prior to pushing it to the curb and you should be okay.  Honestly, unless you have a bunch of grand or great grandchildren living with you I can't imagine you produce much waste at all.  My wife and I rarely fill one small can a week as it is now.

Maybe we'll get the city to fill that cart they give to him with pink gas....

[Teatownclown]

My trash will take up one tenth of the size container I am made to wear and probably walked out to my depository only once a week.

There should be two sets of customers. The conscientious and the gluttonous, priced accordingly.

RM's Approach to Trash Collecting?

[Conan71]

My trash will take up one tenth of the size container I am made to wear and probably walked out to my depository only once a week.

There should be two sets of customers. The conscientious and the gluttonous, priced accordingly.

RM's Approach to Trash Collecting?

I think there are two container sizes and two different rates.

[shadows]

Will it be allowed to sublease the extra unneeded space in the 95 gallon carts?
Tulsa should hold up on putting the city name of identifying signs on the carts because that will depreciate the resale value won't it?
There is a possibility the manufacturer has an overstock of returned carts that he keeps reselling. 
Remember the old cliché "Get the contract and the profits are in the non bid  changes".

[Hoss]

I think there are two container sizes and two different rates.

Actually I believe it's three.  And I'm going to make sure I let my councilperson know that I've been monitoring about how much trash a week I generate and am pretty sure the 35 gallon bin will be just fine for my needs.  Which actually reduces my utility bill by about a dollar, if the rates published last month are correct.

[shadows]

If a household recycles cardboard, paper, medal, glass, cloth and has a garbage disposal unit would he have more than 5 gallon of trash each week?

Would a hand full of bags for green stuff with stickers be his total trash needs?