[Zeke]

Nothing should go to a landfill. Long Beach has a gas assisted furnace that burns super hot and they filter the off gasses to 99.X. The energy is used to fire a steam generator which produces electricity. LB then sells the energy to the grid. What's great about this is that they can control the output to meet peak demand.

Yeah, we still have the recycle bins but only because of federal mandate. When recycling first became a mandate, LB issued these little bins the size of a large storage box. We got away with that for 2-3 years when the feds audited and said more was needed by volume. I think it was 50% excluding green waste.

We don't have green waste bins like many cities around us as that stuff burns well. The furnace has been online for 25 years and is just now getting an upgrade along with refurbishment.