Topics from Class:
Guest Lecturer:
Barry Prater
Central Kentucky Fiber Resources
http://www.centralkyfiber.com/
- 'Toy Story 3': Toys discarded
- The 'Quo Family' - the status quo
- 'To Infinity and Beyond: Architecture and Building
Using Conscious Design'
- BHFR & Cellmark:
http://www.bgpride.org/documents/2bWasteReduction-BarryPrater.pdf
environmental stewardship
- 'The WALK': Water Air Land Kreatures
(or Kritters !)
- The Great Lexington Sign-Off (too many unnecessary signs)
- Gray Water Reclamation: (Health Dept., health concerns)
- Economy = Ecology
- Pre-cycling
- Barry's definition of Sustainability: Planning for the proper
process of preventing pollution by identifying the best method
for returning products and packaging to reusable fiber prior
to purchase. - Horticultural plastics (house plant packaging): Lowe's sends
their used plastic packaging to CKFR
- Colorpoint: (13) acres of greenhouse in Paris, KY:
http://www.colorpoint.biz/Colorpoint
- HDPE Plastics: Germany:
http://plasticpipe.org/pdf/chapter-1_history_physical_chemistry_hdpe.pdf
- Reason NOT vs. Reasons TO Recycle: 2004 #'s for the
U.S. (see Barry's report pdf: BHFR
& Cellmark above.)
- Germany's recycling rate MUCH higher than the U.S.
- Japan: 77% Incineration of waste
- Volume, Contamination, Market/Use: Categorize, Collect,
Combine:
Checklist: wood, plastic, glass, metal, rubber, other
- Paper pulp rubber (clean, natural, or colored), nylon, pvc,
tpo, ferrous/non-ferrous metals
- Resin I.D. Code: HDPE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_recycling
- (7) Resins in plastics: blow molded, injection molded
Central Kentucky Fiber Resources (products and
processes):
- Baled, gaylorded, banded, palletized > delivered to the
market
- Lithoplates from industrial printing: aluminum smelted to
aluminum ore
- (S4) grades of paper
- Shrink wrap LDPE or biscayne - LLDPE
- P.E.T.E. industrial banding: honeycomb vs. line
configuration
- Process waste vs. packaging waste
- Automotive polypropylene
- William Deming 'Out of The Crisis':
http://books.google.com/books/about/Out_of_the_crisis.html?id=LA15eDlOPgoC
- Municipal: Steel cans: bales $80.00/ton ! !
- HDP: High Density Polyethylene
- Pigmented plastics can't be made 'natural'
- Use the SPECIFIC terms for materials
- Somerset, KY: Playsmart: Made of natural (#2) HDPE
- Bulk mail
Central Kentucky Fiber Resources (Unapproved Materials):
- Mixed paper
- Contaminated OCC (Carbon Black)
- Bi-Fiber (foil, cardboard - silver on the box not recyclable)
- #1 - 7's w/out prior approval - mixed plastics not worth
sorting (ex. Kentucky Gentleman Whiskey Bottles)
- Scales: Trucks weighed (- the driver's weight). 250 tons
of material/day through CKFR
- Conveyer/Baler: 'Tiny' > finished bale
- Cardboard bale = 1500lbs = $165.00/ton
- Paper Mills: Temple-Inland:
http://www.templeinland.com/CorrugatedPackaging/Linerboard/recycled.asp
- Tractor Trailer, ocean bound ships
- Nine Dragon Mill: Largest paper mill in China: 200,000
gallons of water = 1 ton of milled paper
- Buffalo Trace Distillary: http://www.buffalotrace.com/
- Goodwill Industries of KY: Since 1923 creating jobs,
1,657 people hired to recycle cardboard
- Wayne Co. Recycling (southern shore of Lake Cumberland):
http://www.waynecounty.ky.gov/services/sw.htm
- Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control the
Process
- Sherwin Williams: 140 tons saved from landfill. Cans
filled with paint to smelter, paint evaporates
(carcinogen?). Compare to automotive paint on metal.
- Paper = $30.00/$50.00 / ton
- Kentucky Division of Waste Management: Solid Waste
Report (copy from Barry)
- Kentucky's landfill rates are cheaper than MOST other
states, so other states dump their waste here in
Kentucky
- Dominican Republic: Largest landfills in the world with
villages in them: 'The Fly' and 'The Hole'
- KY County landfills: 316,000 tons of solid waste in 2009
- Dept. of Environmental Protection
- Division of Waste Management
- (4) cubic yards = (1) ton
- Compacted vs. Incinerated
- 1.4 million cubic yards of garbage = +/- (1) city block by
20 stories. Compare to Centerpoint, downtown
Lexington
- Brick and mortar recycling
- C&M Disposal (Lexington, KY) trying to specialize in
construction disposal: http://www.cmeky.com/
- Dominance of 'stick building' in Kentucky
- Northern Kentucky: Tub Grinder, grind up the entire
building > ship the waste to Ohio, Ohio charges by
the cubic yard.
- Glass: No place to melt it down in Kentucky (ship to
Indianapolis or Nashville)
- Kentucky State building code: Aggregate under rough
plumbing, why not use glass?
- Lawrenceberg, KY: Glass facility: Crushed
automotive glass into rail cars. PVB
(Poly Vinyl Butoline) - see MSDS sheet on materials.
- ISRI Spec. Circular 2006 for the selling and
purchasing of materials
- Lignin: The glue of the plant world - chemically
removed for office paper.
- Plastics: PET - bottles, re-grind to chips.
PBT - automotive, contains metal, not recyclable.
H.B.E.E.R. Potential Suppliers:
- Outdoor Venture: Military Tents - 10 tons/month
process waste vinyl.
- Belden, Inc.: Monticello, KY - wire and cable products.
- Jones Plastic - appliance parts.
- CTA: Corbin, KY - automotive insulation.
- Woodstock Pallet: Somerset, KY - wooden pallets, scrap
pallets - 200 tons/month
- Plastics: taste, burn test - moisten the material
for float test.
- Tarter Gate Scrap Wood 200 tons/month: Dannville, KY
agricultural equipment.
- Testing of Plastics: "Pancake" samples.
- Polystyrene (expanded): 48 ft. trailer packed full: 1,000 lbs.
" " baled: 6,000 lbs
" " densified: 40,000 lbs.
- Fruit of The Loom: Russell Springs, KY -
100 tons/month by-product
- Philips Lighting: Danville, KY - incandescent light -
obsolete trays (for bulb shipping) - landfill!
- Single Serve eating in America creates a severe
over-abundance of packaging.
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