[Announce] Important Solid Waste Meeting TOMORROW - Can anyone attend?

[Lynne Jackson]

Dear All:

DEC is having a "State Solid Waste Management Plan" meeting TOMORROW,  
Wednesday, March 5 at 10:00 AM at 625 Broadway, Room PA 129B.

To go, you must RSVP to:
nysswmp at gw.dec.state.ny.us
or call 518-402-8678


Can anyone attend this important meeting?  If so, first, RSVP, next  
please let me know!  I have pasted the detail of the email below.

Thanks!

Lynne Jackson



> Hi — FYI and please pass on to interested parties.
>
>
> Dear Friend:
>
> The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation invites you to  
> join us
> for a stakeholder meeting on the new State Solid Waste Management  
> Plan.
> The meeting will be held at the DEC’s Albany office at 625 Broadway in
> room PA 129B  on March 5 at 10am.  You must obtain security  
> clearance to
> enter the building, so please RSVP if you are planning to come and be
> sure to bring ID.
>
> NYS law (ECL Section 27-0103), requires the Department to develop a
> solid waste management plan and biennial updates.  The first Solid  
> Waste
> Management Plan (SWMP) was issued in 1987.  It set a waste  
> reduction and
> recovery goal of 50%--bold for its time-and contained a broad and
> aggressive list of recommendations.  While the goal has, for the most
> part, been met many of the original plan's recommendations were never
> pursued and recovery has leveled off, and may even have dropped,  
> for the
> better part of the last decade.  The most recent SWMP Update was  
> issued
> in 1999/2000.  No recycling or waste disposal data has been officially
> released since then.
>
> The original plan, its implementation and the biennial updates were
> central to New York=s efforts to proactively and properly address  
> solid
> waste generation and management.  However, since the last update
> materials recovery has reached a plateau, as evidenced by flat or
> declining recovery rates.  At the same time, disposal capacity has
> increased and new waste treatment technologies, such as high  
> temperature
> conversion technologies (gasification, plasma arc conversion, etc),  
> have
> emerged.  Furthermore, emerging waste streams that were unanticipated
> when the initial SWMP was developed, such as electronics,
> pharmaceuticals, and mercury-containing products, present new  
> challenges
> for today's waste management decision-makers.
>
> Given the time that has lapsed since the original plan was issued in
> 1987, the substantial changes in the industry and technology that have
> taken place since then, and the reported decline in recycling rates
> statewide, a comprehensive reevaluation of the state's solid waste
> programs, policies, plans and goals is long overdue.   This year, the
> Department is tackling that task by developing a new SWMP.  We hope  
> that
> you will help us in this endeavor by participating in the stakeholder
> meeting.
>
> Thank you for your consideration.  Please RSVP to
> nysswmp at gw.dec.state.ny.us , or 518-402-8678.
>
>
> Resa A. Dimino
> Special Assistant
> Commissioner's Policy Office
> NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
>
> Anne Reynolds
> Director
> Commissioner's Policy Office
> NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
> 625 Broadway
> Albany, New York  12232
>
> Phone:  (518) 402-9401
> Fax: (518) 402-9016
>
>