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Affluent and the Effluent Waste Management Problems and Prospects Railway
The Affluent and the Effluent Waste Management Problems and Prospects Railway Systems & Management Assn
Copyright 1968
Soft Cover
80 pages
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Mr. R. O. Bardwell
Director of Planning
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad 1
FINANCIAL
Mr. James H. McCall
Corporate Finance Department
Goodbody & Co. 3
MAJOR URBAN AREAS
"The City of Chicago"
Mr. James V. Fitzpatrick
President
Seversky Electronation Corporation 9
"The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago"
Mr. Frank E. Dalton
Acting Chief Engineer
Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago 19
RESEARCH
Mr. William Q Kehr
Regional Program Chief
Solid Waste Program
U.S. Public Health Service 33
DIMENSIONS AND TRENDS IN SOLID WASTES
Dr. John R. Sheaffer
Research Associate
Center for Urban Studies
University of Chicago 35
RAIL HAUL AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS
Dr. Karl W. Wolf
Project Director
Research Foundation American Public Works Association 39
THE RAIL HANDLING OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
Mr. Ernest J. Moore
Manager-Market Research-Development
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad 53
Mr. Sheldon Landy
Manager-Marketing Service
Illinois Central Railroad 57
Mr. Michael O. Albl
Manager of Waste Material
National Disposal Company 58
Mr. David H. Copenhagen
Director-Market Development
Western Pacific Railroad 60
Mr. Donald M. Kerr
President
Western Land Reclamation Co. 63
ADDENDUM
RSMA Officers 1968-69
RSMA Constitution
RSMA Publications
FOREWORD
Dealing with the used products of our robust economy is indeed a problem. To us it is a problem in the same sense that universal tertiary education or going to the moon are problems. That is, it is a problem and a challenge.
Our objective in a general sense is to deal with the physical material used by our society so that once having completed its use it plays either a positive or a passive role. To the extent that this role becomes negative, it limits our economic growth, our health and the aesthetic pleasure we derive from life.
We generally classify the problems of waste disposal along the lines of physical state; solid, liquid, or gas. Solid waste being what we commonly call trash and also dried sewage sludge, liquid being usually industrial effluents and gaseous being em-missions into the air from industrial processes and also combustion products.
Because of the backgrounds of the people at this conference, I suspect that we will be most interested in the solid waste problem. This is simply because bulk solid material is something railroads transport economically. The transport and disposal of liquid waste will not be overlooked, however. Air pollution, while a critical problem, will be touched on only to the extent that it can be reduced by the diversion of waste material into new systems where it would otherwise be burned.
Solid waste disposal systems consist of collection and disposal with a transportation function sometimes inserted between the two. While much is happening in the collection end of the discussion, I think we are going to be interested in that part mostly from the point of view that properly located central collection stations can significantly affect the cost of collection.
In the first half of this century, as urban centers grew, the cost of transporting solid waste to peripheral dump sites grew because of the increasing distance. The close-in dump sites, which were usually burning, grew less acceptable to the public. The solution to the problem was the construction of large central incinerators. This solution gained acceptance at the time because little was known about the effect of air pollution and even less was known about rational capital budgeting.
The habit of incineration of solid waste is perhaps a hangover from Victorian days when germs were seen as the major public health problem and means other than heat were not available for their control. The capital cost of incineration is very high and growing. It creates two problems in place of one-control of air pollution and disposal of the 20% residue which is considerably more soluble than the input material and therefor a potent water pollutant.
In defense of city officials who have in the past gone the incinerator route, it is only recently that people in the transportation industry have recognized the need for low cost bulk transport in waste disposal systems. Low cost transportation systems are now being coupled with modern landfill technology leading to a new era in waste disposal. It is my hope that this conference and the work it represents will contribute to the extinction of the saurus incineratus.
As a side note, I would like to state that, except for extremely rare circumstances, the raising of steam by burning solid waste is an economic myth. This is a conclusion that has been reached by economists
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