10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 12,1971
Local Persons Visit Modern Shippensburg Incinerator Plant
Waste removal is a farm prob- Presently the borough is plan
lem. It‘s also a problem for ning to use the material as a
everyone else filler in road construction.
Several Lancaster County If uses can be found for the
•officials Thursday visited Ship- material left over from incmera
pensburg in Cumberland County tion, it would eliminate the need
to study a new system for for landfill following incinera
•handling solid wastes tion In addition, it is anticipated
With the help of a federal that income from sale of the
.grant, Shippensburg is pioneer- materials could play a major role
ing in a modern incinerator sys- 111 recovering costs of operation
tern The incinerator plant and in making incineration as a
•handles waste for about 12,000 waste disposal system much
to 13,000 persons in the Shippens- more economical foi more com
burg area. munities ,
Conducting the tour was Wal- Basically, the reuse would be
ter Smith, Shippensburg a foim of waste recycling, a con
iborough manager and formerly ce Pt which has been receiving
manager of New Holland Slowing attention
borough. One of the primary advantages
Also present were some repre- °t the Shippensburg system over
sentatives of the Lancaster Man- existing systems is that it con
ufacturers Association, local Ex- tains an elaborate and effective
'tension personnel, some local means of eliminating air pollu
jCovernment officials and inter- While burning up and
**sted citizens. Many other eliminating sohd wastes, many
igroups, including some from the present plants create an air pol-
Jocal area, have already visited lution problem,
the Shippensburg facility. Primary drawback of the
Discussion of the facility at -Shippensburg system for local
Shippensburg indicated it is pri- communities, however, it was
marily an alternative to landfill indicated, is that it co ®
operations. But it was noted 'more than landfill operatic s.
that about 10 per cent of the Shippensburg pioneered in the
refuse which goes into the in- incinerator primarily because its
.icinerator comes out as a com- soils are not suitable for la d
Jbination of carbons, metals, glass fin
and ash This waste still must be Aieas which can use landfill,
disposed of by landfill speakers said, can remove
Borough manager Smith said wastes for as low as one dollar
the borough is now working with P® r ton ’ a . hou “ _
Monsanto company and other the area of two
souices in an effoit to find uses Smith said Shippens 0 y -
for the waste that is left over tem has had costs tunning from
from incineration t 0 eight dollais a ton and
In particular, there is hope this did no- includ i
that the glass can be recovered financing
and sold, as well as the carbons. Smith said the fan i y
It may be possible to recover about $700,000 A goveinme
other materials as well. (Continued on Page ,
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