2013-08-28 Minutes Environmental Management Commission

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The county needs to promote pre-sorting by paying residents for all recyclables. 5.N ENCE TS S USSI< Na ® Director's Report (attached to original minutes): Waste Reduction Technology Director Leithead Tadd introduced Director Ginoza and asked that he share Maui's efforts in obtaining a waste reduction technology as they recently successfully selected a vendor and are currently negotiating a contract. • Maui currently has a pre-sort recycling program with a 40% diversion rate and a diversion rate goal of ba%. • In March 2012. a Request for (qualifications (RFQ) was issued and 100+ inquiries were received. • In November 2012, a Design -Build -Finance -Operate RFP was issued with responses due January 31, 2013. It was open-ended and did not request electricity as the only output. • Maui '• the bidders1 provide proof •facilities,a operation i r' period of 3 years. • March, 2013, a vendor was chosen and currently they are in the contract negotiation stage. • If the primary output was to be electricity, the companies needed a firni baseload power commitment from ! to be included in their financing component. • Without that commitment from. the utility, the selected vendor changed the output from electricity to refuse derived fuel (RDF). The RDF process uses municipal solid waste, fats, oils / greases, green •'coalnatural• !'. as • byproduct also. It is up to the contractor• an end-userfor i • vendor• Gasification technology is viable. In a controlled air environment, matter is broken into elemental components, refined and snygas fuel is made. There is an 80-90% waste diversion but no guarantee that the electricity can be sold to the utility. • Maui, County's participation is only scaling the municipal solid waste (MSW) as it comes in. Once scaled, it is taken to the vendor's facility which is located adjacent to the landfill. ! from operating ! • The vendor pays the county a tipping fee for the residual inert material that is landfilled. • One end-user of the RDF could be the Maui Sugar Mill as it provides 10% of Maui's electricity and currently uses coal fuel_ Modification of the mill's air permits would be required. • Maui accepts green waste at $30/ton from commercial operators and charges $80/ton for sludge disposal. • It was noted that the cost of a T facility for the frig Island will be higher because Maui collects 450 tons of waste per day to Fast I-Iawai`i's 20€1 tons/day. Sort StationUpdate monthly- With regards to Commissioner Randle's request for Operating Costs of the Sort Station on a monthly basis, the Director indicated the costs are tracked and inputted on an annual basis so • being ablei track equipment and labor costs in a different way to provide costs on a monthly basis. Volcano/Glenwood Transfer Station Upgrades 0 Funds have been allocated.