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Sustainability and
Waste Management -
Finding the Lemonade in Waste?
Who Am I?

  Son of God, brother of the universe
  Mr. Healy’s brother
  An Identical twin
  Father of 3 Bellarmine CP Grads (Rob - 1999,
  Pat – 2001, Peter - 2004)
  High School Confirmation Teacher
  Ministry – Care for God’s Creation (St. Francis)
    Environmental Engr., Waste Mgmt (32yrs)
    Environmental Remediation Group Manager
What is Waste?
What is Waste?

  Waste:
   a) refuse from places of human or animal
   habitation: as : garbage, rubbish
   b) excrement —often used in plural :
   sewage
What is Refuse?

  Refuse:
    a) the worthless or useless part of
    something : leavings
    b) trash, garbage
What is Garbage?

  Garbage:
   a) food waste
   b) discarded or useless material
What is Rubbish?

  Rubbish:
   a) useless waste or rejected matter :
   trash
   b) something that is worthless or
   nonsensical <few real masterpieces are
   forgotten and not much survives —
   William Bridges-Adams>
What is Trash?

  Trash:
    a) something worth little or nothing: as :
    junk, rubbish
THIS IS TRASH!
???????
How Much are we talking
about?
  Nation-wide
How Much are we talking
about?
  California - 2008
State of California Waste
Generation
  ~40 m tons/yr




  Fill AT&T Park ~1,400 times/yr or ~4 times/day
Santa Clara Co. Waste
Generation
  ~1.5 m tons/yr




  Fill AT&T Park ~52 times/yr
What’s in the “Waste”?

  Nationwide -2007
What’s in the “Waste”?

   California Wastes Composition - 2008
Recycling Rates
Lemonade in Waste?

  “One man’s trash is another man’s
  treasure”

  Perspective
Lemonade in Waste

  Recycled materials
    Glass, metals, plastics
    textiles, paper, green wastes
  Energy resource
    Raw waste
    Decomposed waste
More Recycled Products

  Plastics
    Outdoor furniture,
    Wheel stops
    Trash cans
    Fabrics
    Shoes
Recycled Products

  Glass
   Glassphalt,
   Drainage materials,
   Landscaping
   Countertops
   Flooring
More Recycled Products

  Paper
   Many recylced paper products
   Many companies
More Recycled Products

  Metals
    Aluminium
      New aluminum cans
      Jewelry
      Houses




    Ferrous
      resmelted
More Recycled Products

  Green Wastes
   Compost
   Mulch
More Recycled Products

  Textiles
    Good Will, second hand stores
    Rags
    Wetsuits to lunch bags
    Patagonia refurbishes their returned clothing
Future of Waste?

  Trash: something worth little or
  nothing

  Trick is to make what waste is left worth
  something so that there is NO TRASH
  left.
San Jose’s Zero Waste Plan
San Jose’s Zero Waste Plan

  Diversion Plan Goals
    2000 - 50% (statewide requirement)
    2009 – 62% (actual)
    2013 - 75%
    2022 - 100%
San Jose’s Zero Waste Plan
Yard Waste Recycling
Food Waste - Composting
San Jose’s Zero Waste Plan
Conversion Technologies
Development Status
Municipal Waste Composting
Anaerobic Digestion

  • Barcelona, Spain
Anaerobic Digestion
Waste Combustion

  Hamburg, Germany
Waste Combustion
Pyrolysis

 • Burgau, Germany
Pyrolysis
Gasification

  • Karlsruhe Germany
Gasification
Where does your "trash"
go after you "can" it?
  What happens to the stuff we don’t
  recycle, reuse (at the source)?
Sorting Facilities

  More Recycling
    SMART Station – Sunnyvale, Mountain View
    Green Team
Landfills

  What does a modern landfill look like?
Liner/Capping Systems
Landfill Isometric

  http://www.mrwmd.org/videos.html
Landfill Gas Collect/Flare/
Energy Generation
What can you do to Affect
Zero Waste??
  Reduce – waste generated.
  Reuse – everything as much as you can.
  Recycle – when can’t reuse.



  (i.e. Make lemonade!!)
Questions?

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