Where does your waste go?

1. Where does your waste go?

2. Where does your waste go? • BYU garbage truck.

3. Where does your waste go? • BYU garbage truck. • Drives to Springville (10 miles). Dumps.

4. Where does your waste go? • BYU garbage truck. • Drives to Springville (5 miles). Dumps. • Reloaded. Driven 25 miles to landfill.

5. Where does your waste go? • BYU garbage truck. • Drives to Springville (5 miles). Dumps. • Reloaded. Driven 25 to landfill. • Pushed into piles.

6. Where does your waste go? • BYU garbage truck. • Drives to Springville (5 miles). Dumps. • Reloaded. Driven 25 to landfill. • Pushed into piles. • Covered with dirt.

7. What happens to the paperyou put in a BYU recycling bin?

8. What happens to the paperyou put in a BYU recycling bin? • We collect the paper

9. What happens to the paperyou put in a BYU recycling bin? • We collect the paper • Make sure it is sorted

10. What happens to the paperyou put in a BYU recycling bin? • We collect the paper • Make sure it is sorted • Bale the paper

11. What happens to the paperyou put in a BYU recycling bin? • We collect the paper • Make sure it is sorted • Bale the paper • Ship it by the truck load to a paper mill

12. What happens to the paperyou put in a BYU recycling bin? • We collect the paper • Make sure it is sorted • Bale the paper • Ship it by the truck load to a paper mill Annually BYU recycles over • 100 tons of junk mail • 400 tons of newspaper • 1,300 total tons of paper

13. Why don’t we have recycling in Provo? We do!

14. Recycling in ProvoPaper Drop-offs Newspaper only • Supermarkets • Smith’s (300 N 200 W) • Allen’s (600 E 300 S) • Movies 8 (Univ. Parkway) • Kiwanis Park (950 N 1100 E) • Glenwood Apartments

15. Recycling in ProvoPaper Drop-offs All types of paper Elementary Schools • Wasatch (900 E 1000 N) • Jouaqin (500 N 500 E) • Provost (630 S 900 E)

16. Recycling in ProvoGreen Waste Drop-off Takes: • grass clippings • leaves • branches No stumps No large tree trunks Free to Provo residents Located in East Bay (1400 S Industrial Pkwy – approx 1400 S 650 E)

17. Recycling in ProvoCurbside Recycling Green bins take: • Grass • Leaves • Branches As of May 2004 there were 2200 green bins in Provo. Cost is $4 per month.

18. Recycling in ProvoCurbside Recycling Christmas trees are picked up curbside throughout the city during last week in December and the first week of January

19. Recycling in ProvoCurbside Recycling Blue bins take: • Paper • Plastic (#1 and #2) • Metal But NOT glass As of May 2004 there were 1700 blue bins in Provo. Cost is $5 per month.

20. Recycling in ProvoResults • The yard waste program diverts 7,000 tons per year from the landfill • 5,800 tons from drop-off • 1,200 tons from curbside pick-up • Household recycling (blue cans) divert 54 tons per month (650 tons per year) • Provo City landfills about 2,000 tons per month (approximately 24,000 tons per year)

21. What happens tocurbside recycling?

22. Curbside Recycling • It gets delivered to a sorting facility

23. Curbside Recycling • It gets delivered to a sorting facility. • Then dumped into a big pile.

24. Curbside Recycling • It gets delivered to a sorting facility. • Then dumped into a big pile. • Sorted by hand from a conveyor belt.

25. Curbside Recycling • It gets delivered to a sorting facility. • Then dumped into a big pile. • Sorted by hand from a conveyor belt. • Pushed into piles.

26. Curbside Recycling • It gets delivered to a sorting facility. • Then dumped into a big pile. • Sorted by hand from a conveyor belt. • Pushed into piles. • Stacked in bales.

27. Curbside Recycling • It gets delivered to a sorting facility. • Then dumped into a big pile. • Sorted by hand from a conveyor belt. • Pushed into piles. • Stacked in bales. • And then shipped to a paper making plant.

28. Waste Economics How to figure the cost of recycling? Does recycling have to make a profit or does it just need to cost less than garbage collection and disposal?

29. Waste Economics - Garbage • Waste placed in trash can • Custodian collects and puts in dumpster – cost of custodian • Garbage truck picks up – cost of truck operation ($100/hr) • Drives 10 miles to transfer station – cost of truck operation • Garbage dumped and repacked on larger truck – cost of “tipping” ($27 per ton here) • Garbage driven 25 miles to landfill – cost of truck operation • Garbage buried – cost of land use

30. Waste Economics - Recycling • Paper put in recycling bin • Custodian collects – cost of custodian • Recycling truck picks up – cost of truck operation • Drives 2 miles to BYU recycling facility – cost of truck operation • Paper is dumped, sorted and baled – cost of sorting • Paper is sold and shipped to paper mills on west coast or overseas – revenue from paper, savings of not paying to put in landfill, cost of shipping • Made into new paper – how does cost of recycled paper compare to cost of cutting trees down for paper?

31. Generation of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States • If Provo City puts 24,000 tons of garbage per year in the landfill, and • BYU puts 4,000 tons of garbage per year in the landfill, and • Private waste haulers add more from what they pick up at apartments • Then how much waste is generated and put in landfills each year?

32. Municipal Solid Waste in US(Pounds per person per day)

33. Waste Producedpounds per person each day

34. Waste Recycledpounds per person each day

35. Waste Landfilledpounds per person each day

36. Lowest Landfilling States

37. Waste Incineratedpounds per person each day

38. Waste Statistics by State(pounds/capita/day)

39. Waste Statistics by State(pounds/capita/day)

40. Waste Statistics by State(pounds/capita/day)

41. Waste Statistics by State(pounds/capita/day)

42. Waste Statistics by State(pounds/capita/day)

43. Waste Statistics by State(pounds/capita/day)

44. Composition of Municipal Solid Waste(before recycling)

45. 2001 US Recycling Rates

46. Estimated Composition of Municipal Solid Waste(after recycling)

47. Where do we go from here? What options do we have?

48. Where do we go from here?Make no changes? • In 1988 the US had 7,924 landfills (dumps) • In 2001 the US had 1,858 landfills • “At the national level, capacity does not appear to be a problem, although regional dislocations sometimes occur.” (EPA) • The landfill for the southern half of Utah County has approximately 75 years worth of space left.

49. Where do we go from here?Make no changes? March 2001: Spanish Fork residents began battling a developer and the city when it was discovered that asbestos, contaminated water and potentially explosive concentrations of methane gas were detected under and around their homes sitting atop the former county landfill. The homes were two years old. April 2002: Ten homes were moved to a neighboring subdivision.

50. Where do we go from here?Pass new legislation? • Ten states currently have a “bottle bill” where a deposit is charged on each container of carbonated drinks. • No state has been able to pass a bill that includes water and juice bottles in the deposit system.