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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
With space in existing landfills rapidly disappearing and new landfills more expensive to develop, operate and close, local governments are taking a closer look at alternatives. But alternative technologies bring new problems along with their new solutions, according to Cynthia V. Bailey, executive director of Virginia’s Department of Waste Management.
Resource recovery facilities, mass-burn operations which bum huge amounts of garbage as fuel in a power plant, turn waste to energy. The United States now bums about five percent of its garbage in energy recovery plants and that figure is likely to rise to 18 percent or so in the next three years and could total 40 percent by the end of the century.
“But resource recovery is not feasible for many Virginia localities,” Ms. Bailey noted.
Such an operation requires not only huge
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