C&D recycling facility gets support from City.* Devens, Mass., officials have voted to support a proposal by Waltham, Mass.-based construction company W.K. Macnamara to build a construction and demolition recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. plant, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report in the Lowell Sun (Lowell, Mass.). The Devens Enterprise Commission, acting as the Board of Health, has voted unanimously to support the proposal for the 90,000-square-foot, $12 million facility. The company still needs site-plan approval from the commission, in addition to permits from the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP DEP Deposit DEP Deputy DEP Department of Environmental Protection DEP Dependent DEP Departure DEP Depot DEP Deposition DEP deployed (US DoD) DEP Data Execution Prevention (computer security) ). The facility, which has been in the works since March 2005, would be capable of receiving 1,500 tons of material daily from construction and demolition sites. It would accept old corrugated cor·ru·gate v. cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, cor·ru·gates v.tr. To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves. v.intr. containers (OCC OCC See: Options Clearing Corporation OCC See Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). ), metal and wood debris, according to the report. The company hopes to begin construction this spring or summer and have the facility ready for operation by early 2007. The commission is expected to hold a hearing on the proposal by the end of March. |
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