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CCean Earth Energy ~fawaii - xilo Sastaina6Ce Integrate~`Waste to Energy ~Fa~ties Advanced Desim Landfill (ADL) The Advanced Design Landfill (ADL) is unlike any landfill currently constructed and operating. The ADL surpasses current USEPA RCRA Subtitle D standazds for landfills and is composed of three state- of-the-art advanced covered unit processes including a Waste Recycling Center (WRC), Landfill Stack Center (LSC), and Soil Treatment Center (STC). Combined, these facilities meet all of the community's waste needs and provide long term stable employment. This is a one-stop-shop for waste management. Waste Recycline Center tWRC) Municipal solid waste is collected by private enterprise and delivered to the Clean Earth Hawaii-Hilo advanced design landfill in trucks where it is dumped inside a building onto a hopper feeding a lazge loop shaped conveyor belt. Garbage is hand sorted from the conveyor to remove hazardous materials, metal, plastic, glass, and cardboazd/office paper. This has proven to be the most effective method for recycling. Each of these recyclable commodities, constituting approximately 32% of the municipal solid waste stream is stored in a portable bin. When filled, bins are moved from the conveyor belt line to stand-by storage. In storage, bin contents are cleaned as needed and packaged for off site shipment to reprocessing facilities or on-site uses. The hand sorting operation is developed in consideration of strict human health and safety methodology with appropriate personnel protective equipment, ventilation and wash-down capability. Vented air and wash down water is captured and recycled in various locations in the SIWEF. After hand sorting, the ,p.~,A;.»~g garbage, containing mostly organic and cellulose derived waste, is collected in a hopper for future compaction, bailing and packaging into plastic sealed blocks or cubes in the Landfill Stack Center (LSC). Other solid waste landfill inputs are also managed, which are typically ignored in most communities. Such waste streams constitute an additional 9% of the municipal solid waste stream. These wastes received at the WRC include white goods, used oil and off-spec fuel, tires, automobiles, wood scrap, construction and demolition debris, dead animals, medical, and asbestos wastes. These materials are separated individually and placed in covered areas or on lay down pads adjacent to the WRC. White goods are first stripped of plastic and Freon and then processed and sold as scrap steel. Freon is shipped off-site as a recyclable hazardous material while collceted plastic is incorporated into appropriate WRC recycling bins. Used oil and fuels are received and stored in bermed and double contained tanks. Periodically, the used oil and off-spec fuel is combusted in a cyclonic high temperature incinerator. Emissions and heat fiom the incinerator are recycled through the SIWEF. S/WEF Technlca/ Proposal ConJldenfial 7