Garbage power.Garbage garbage: see solid waste. Power: The future of L.A.'s trash policy could be decided in Sacramento, where legislators are set this month to consider a bill that could make it easier to build trash-to-energy plants. City and county officials are studying "conversion technologies" that lessen less·en v. less·ened, less·en·ing, less·ens v.tr. 1. To make less; reduce. 2. Archaic To make little of; belittle. v.intr. To become less; decrease. dependence on landfills by turning trash into gas or electricity. City Councilman Greig Smith Greig Smith is a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 12th District, which includes Granada Hills, Northridge and other parts of the Western San Fernando Valley. Smith is also a reserve officer for the Los Angeles Police Department. has proposed building plants in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. by 2010 to alleviate the need for Sunshine Canyon Landfill, the Granada Hills dump that currently takes the city's residential trash, but said he needs a change in state law to allow it, the Daily News of Los Angeles reported. Under current law, these technologies cannot generate any pollution, which makes it virtually impossible to build trash-to-gas plants in California. |
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