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CCean Earth Energy ~fawaii - ~fiCo GLC Sustainable IntegrateQ `Waste to Energy ~Facifities Environmental Dilemma -Waste, Energy and Contaminated Property National Considerations The United States is experiencing amulti-faceted environmental dilemma with serious consequences involving waste, energy and contaminated property. Current methods engender a "bury, bum, and haul" waste management philosophy, which causes us to ignore more effective waste management technologies. Common landfilling, incinerating, or off-site shipment is all intimately linked to the cost of petroleum fuel. As a country we consume tremendous amounts of fuel and live in a volatile petroleum based economy with unstable escalating prices. Using petroleum fuel requires storage in tanks with leaks or spills that cannot be avoided. The cost of waste management continues ever upward at a current national rate of 12% per annum. Look at the following interesting facts: • 4.41bs of waste per person every day. With a population of 298 million we amass 240 million tons of gazbage a yeaz. • 35,000 abandoned landfills and 3,043 operating landfills. Over 85% of these landfills leak into underlying groundwater. • Combined, landfills are the single largest methane emission source in the nation at 7 billion tons per yeaz. Only 10% of this gas is captured and controlled and only 20% - 30% of a current standazd design landfill can be farmed for methane. • New environmental regulations are being promulgated to mitigate environmental damage from leaking landfills, air polluting incinerators and cross-ocean shipment of wastes. These changes, to protect the environment, increase solid waste management expenses so high that they are unaffordable. • Landfills operate at significant cost with all of the increasing expenses passed on to the public. • The US accounts for 25% of world energy use. • The US consumes 800 billion gallons of petroleum fuel per yeaz with 600 billion gallons attributed to vehicles and equipment. • Over 700,000 underground storage tank facilities experience 24,000 spills annually with mitigation costs exceeding $24 million. • Over 300,000 leaking underground storage tanks are currently being assessed with over $2 billion in annual remediation costs. • 450,000 seriously contaminated properties aze tied to the use of petroleum based products and not productively contributing to the tax base. The problems identified are interrelated and receive much of our hard earned money. We need to find a better way to manage waste, produce energy and eliminate contaminated soil through an effective affordable solution for the public, which is currently available and proven. Now, let's focus on the specific nature of these problems in Hawaii. SIWEF Tecknkal Proposal ConjWeatid t