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through resource recovery; non-bilrnable items and left-over ash must still be buried in a landfill. With current technology, "You’re never going to get away from landfills in the general sense,”he advised.
He noted that a recycling program can reduce the trash stream going into a landfill and lengthen its life. “But if the markets were there, somebody would be doing it (recycling) already,” Mr. Gregori said. Government could subsidize a recycling program but, like any aspect of solid waste disposal, that would take substantial tax revenue, he added.
No shortcuts allowed
With the existing landfill due to close within 90 days, Rappahannock needs a means to dispose of its solid waste as soon as possible, Mr. Gregori acknowledged. “As of July 1, you don’t have any place to go.” He emphasized, however, that the Department of Waste Management will not short-cut its permitting process to accommodate the county.
But if the Board of Supervisors is “committed to a site” and tests continue to be favorable for its use as a landfill, the department “can permit a small portion of the site, enough to handle your trash for six months, to give you the landfill life you need for the evaluation and permitting process to be completed on the whole site.” And even then, “we don’t permit the entire 100 acres just like that. We permit it in phases,” say 20 acres at a time, “so we can keep technology up with any long term facility,” Mr. Gregori said.
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