Each month, Joel Rubin works to remind officials from eight south Hampton Roads communities, plus the media and other audiences, that the way we manage waste disposal today is the way to go in the future as well.
Most residents might believe their trash goes from their black cans into a landfill, but we are actually a progressive community in that regard. The garbage is trucked by city trucks to what are called “transfer stations” in each community, where it is sorted. Most then travels in another vehicle to Wheelabrator Technologies in Portsmouth, where it is shredded, then fed into super hot boilers that converts the “fuel” into steam for the adjacent Norfolk Naval Shipyard and electricity for the nation’s power grid. (more…)
