Demolition firm hopes to open C&D plant in Mass.* W.K. MacNamara, a demolition company headquartered in Waltham, Mass., is working with a Massachusetts town to build a construction and demolition recycling facility. If the company receives all the permits needed, it will be the first C&D recycling plant for the company. Kurt MacNamara, owner of the demolition firm, says the company is in the permitting phase with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , the company was expected to go before the Devens, Mass., Board of Health by the end of April to present its case. If the company receives the go-ahead from the state and local government, it hopes to break ground on the project by early next year, with operations taking place a year later. MacNamara says the facility will be highly automated and will be capable of handling around 1,500 tons of C&D material a day. It is scheduled to be built at a site that is zoned for heavy industry. While it will take in concrete, wood, old corrugated cardboard Noun 1. corrugated cardboard - cardboard with corrugations (can be glued to flat cardboard on one or both sides) corrugated board cardboard, composition board - a stiff moderately thick paper corrugated cardboard n (OCC OCC See: Options Clearing Corporation OCC See Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). ) and various types of metal, carpet and other material generated through a demolition process, the company will not take in any material deemed a hazardous material, including asbestos. Along with crushing equipment, conveyor Conveyor A horizontal, inclined, declined, or vertical machine for moving or transporting bulk materials, packages, or objects in a path predetermined by the design of the device and having points of loading and discharge fixed or selective. equipment and various types of sorting machinery, the facility hopes to have a rail spur built on the site to allow for the rail movement of some material. MacNamara has been working with potential end consumers for much of the material and is confident that a ready market for the processed C&D recyclables will be available for the company. 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. local press reports, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. ) supports projects like MacNamaras. The plant will need a state solid-waste permit, a sewer-extension permit and possibly a conservation and management permit from the state Division of Fisheries fisheries. From earliest times and in practically all countries, fisheries have been of industrial and commercial importance. In the large N Atlantic fishing grounds off Newfoundland and Labrador, for example, European and North American fishing fleets have long and Wildlife. Along with new equipment, MacNamara says plans call for the building to include an educational center that can be used as part of an outreach program for residents, especially schools. |
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