PORT ANGELES — City officials studying how to dispose of yard waste after the Port Angeles Landfill closes in 2006 are considering the development of a large composting center.
“Once the landfill closes, we don’t want to haul it and we can’t burn it, so we need to look at how to dispose of it,” Public Works Director Glenn Cutler said Thursday.
The city currently uses yard waste instead of soil to cover solid waste buried in the landfill each day.
It also provides biosolids, or sludge, from its wastewater treatment plant to farmers for use as fertilizer.
However, the landfill is closing in December 2006 and sludge application by farmers isn’t expected to keep pace with the production of biosolids from the wastewater treatment plant.
So the city wants to begin taking biosolids and some yard waste and mixing it into “co-compost.”
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