Rush Township Landfill Project Changes Course
Submitted by joanne on September 1, 2010 – 9:35 amNo Comment
by Anne Danahy (CenterDaily.com) Dumpsite scaled back as developer focuses on ethanol
The developer who had proposed building a landfill in Rush Township said the project has changed direction and the company is now working on plans for a waste-to-ethanol plant.
Ed Abel, president of Resource Recovery LLC, said the focus will be on converting waste to energy. The project would include a landfill, but it would be about one-fifth the size of the 274-acre landfill initially proposed.
…He said the plant could cost about $280 million to build and would produce an estimated 50 millions gallons a year of ethanol that can be blended with gasoline.
…Abel said the new plans include reactivation of a rail line that would carry in bales of sorted trash. That trash would be fed into an ethanol plant to create the ethanol and reduce the waste by 80 percent, Abel said. He said the downsized landfill would be used for the waste that comes out of the process and if the plant were ever to be temporarily down. READ MORE
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