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the school board and county officials,” Schneider said.
County Administrator John McCarthy said county officials explored the possibility of a waste-to-energy plant about 15 years ago. At the time, he said, the volume of solid waste produced in the county was too low to support such a facility.
But McCarthy did not eliminate the possibility of using waste to produce energy for Rappahannock. Technology is always evolving, he said, and waste-to-energy power may become a viable option in the future.
Schneider said Rappahannock would need to take trash from neighboring jurisdictions to meet the 100 to 200 tons of waste that would be required daily to power a gasification facility. Disposing of garbage from other counties would be another source of revenue for Rappahannock, he said.
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