From Journal Record via RedOrbit (//%22http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/541020/officials_say_tulsas_incinerator_is_burning_up_money/index.html?source=r_science%22):
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...The incinerator was intended to be a solution to the declining landfill space in Tulsa, and as a way to dispose of waste while causing less harm to the environment. But some waste management officials from around the state say the cost of operating the facility outweighs the benefit.For a facility like the one in Tulsa, the capital costs and the operational costs are tremendous, said Fenton Rood, director of waste systems planning for the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. And there were major economic consequences the city couldn't have foreseen when they decided to build the facility.The most important of these, Rood said, is that landfill space never declined as expected and has, in fact, become plentiful...
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...I would like to look at it in a comprehensive manner, Buchert said. The method that is most environmentally friendly and cost effective, that's the way I'd go.Buchert said that since federal mandates required then-operator Ogden Martin to retrofit the facility, which lowered the amount of harmful emissions the plant produced, the plant has become environmentally friendly.Dean Maitts, the Oklahoma president of the National Solid Waste Management Association, recently presented a case to the TARE committee about why the city should not renew the contract for the incinerator facility. Mayor Kathy Taylor is among the members of the TARE committee...