Crisp County Facility On-track and Building

The Crisp County Integrated Waste Processing Facility (IWPF) is segregating, processing, and reusing more than 80% of the waste stream generated by 41 participating governmental jurisdictions. Approximately 40% of the waste stream is being converted into remanufactured product. Another 40% goes to the composting operation. The unprocessed percentage is baled and efficiently placed in the new, on-site Subtitle D bale fill.

MWM, the facility's designer, has identified or created uses for such recyclables as food, glass, paper, plastic, ferrous and non-ferrous waste. The facility's permit allows handling up to 1700 tons of waste a day and has facilitated the closing of 16 landfills in South Georgia, MWM officials said. The facility is increasing its processing capacity, which currently is between 400 and 450 tpd

Another IWPF substantial benefit is the nine-acre Compost Manufacturing Facility that, once fully operational, may become commercially available to farmers. An estimated 206 finished tons of compost and 190 tons of aggregate and ground cover will be processed every day. Final screening of the first several tons of compost feedstock occurred in mid-September.

Atlanta's MWM began the development of the project in October 1992 and has a five-year management contract with the Crisp County Solid Waste Management Authority, owners of the U.S.$53 million facility.

Atlanta's Wastech Equipment, LLC, developed the processes and procedures that drive the facility. Wastech engineers selected the equipment and integrated it into a network of systems, controls, and ancillary equipment and processes.

The project has caught the attention of the U.S. EPA, according to Todd Smiley, Region 4 Solid Waste and Recycling Specialist. He said, "It seems that the Crisp County Solid Waste Management Authority and all their public and private partners have learned from the lessons offered by recycling's past."

U.S. Senator Paul Coverdell, R-GA, also credited the facility. He said, "By demonstrating government cooperation, better management of our resources, closing landfills, and marketing the materials of value in waste, …this project in South Georgia solves problem after problem for our future."

MWM, a design-build firm, engages in marketing and general management of turnkey projects aimed at solving critical problems faced by the waste-services industry

Contact: Municipal Waste Management, Atlanta, GA. Tel: 800-840-0270.