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Mayor Bloomberg Calls for RFP on Solid Waste to Energy FacilityNew York City makes <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/swmp/swmp-4oct.shtml">a lot of waste</a> -- 3 million tons to be exact -- and it costs the city $300 million to export it away from our lovely city streets. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is on a roll <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2012a%2Fpr077-12.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1">trying to divert that waste</a> from the landfill and has now put out a request for proposal (RFP) for a waste management facility that can turn NYC's solid refuse into energy. The city won't help build the facility, but it promises to pay a per-ton fee for all of the refuse that it sends there once it is created. With NYC's waste currently creating 728,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year, building a low-emissions conversion facility is a great way to lower the city's greenhouse gasses while putting to use all the things that residents throw in the garbage can.1
Mayor Bloomberg Calls for RFP on Solid Waste to Energy FacilityNew York City makes <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/swmp/swmp-4oct.shtml">a lot of waste</a> -- 3 million tons to be exact -- and it costs the city $300 million to export it away from our lovely city streets. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is on a roll <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2012a%2Fpr077-12.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1">trying to divert that waste</a> from the landfill and has now put out a request for proposal (RFP) for a waste management facility that can turn NYC's solid refuse into energy. The city won't help build the facility, but it promises to pay a per-ton fee for all of the refuse that it sends there once it is created. With NYC's waste currently creating 728,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year, building a low-emissions conversion facility is a great way to lower the city's greenhouse gasses while putting to use all the things that residents throw in the garbage can.2
Mayor Bloomberg Calls for RFP on Solid Waste to Energy FacilityNew York City makes <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/swmp/swmp-4oct.shtml">a lot of waste</a> -- 3 million tons to be exact -- and it costs the city $300 million to export it away from our lovely city streets. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is on a roll <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2012a%2Fpr077-12.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1">trying to divert that waste</a> from the landfill and has now put out a request for proposal (RFP) for a waste management facility that can turn NYC's solid refuse into energy. The city won't help build the facility, but it promises to pay a per-ton fee for all of the refuse that it sends there once it is created. With NYC's waste currently creating 728,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year, building a low-emissions conversion facility is a great way to lower the city's greenhouse gasses while putting to use all the things that residents throw in the garbage can.3
