After reading the article by Emma Cotton, I am surprised at the continued lack of meaningful progress by our state government on alternatives to the current waste management practice.
Several years back, I sent notes to the governor, legislative representatives, and to Casella to identify an alternative solution. All failed to reply.
My letters identified a common technology now operating in several locations in abutting states as well as other sites in the U.S. and Europe. The technology developed by Wheelabrator is a single-stream waste-to-energy facility and process.
I became aware of this when my son, a New York state resident, told me about the single-stream waste collection and disposal in Hudson Falls, New York.
It is a normal process in business to do benchmarking to measure competitiveness in a product or process. It would seem an easy task for one of the parties I suggested benchmarking the dead-end method Vermong is pursuing for waste management and to arrange a visit to Hudson Falls, New York, to better understand how Vermong could employ the process.
It certainly would be better than NIMBY and dumping it into another state.
Peter Ludlow
Fayston
