NEW MRF SITE TO BE TOURED ORIGINAL LOCATION OF RECYCLING PLANT NIXED LAST YEAR.Byline: Eugene Tong tong 1 tr.v. tonged, tong·ing, tongs To seize, hold, or manipulate with tongs. [Back-formation from tongs. Staff Writer NEWHALL - A local waste hauler is studying the rolling terrain south of Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling , where officials are planning a new 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 for the city. Burrtec Waste Industries, which holds the city's commercial trash disposal franchise, is drafting the details for a materials recovery facility A materials recovery facility or materials reclamation facility (MRF -- pronounced "murf") is a specialized plant that receives, separates and prepares recyclable materials for marketing to end-user manufacturers. at the proposed 508-acre Needham Ranch Industrial Park along the undeveloped ridges south of Newhall. ``They're figuring out what needs to be moved around,'' Travis Lange, the city's environmental services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, manager, said Friday. ``Obviously, it's a part of a much larger project. They have to figure out what goes into the building, what needs to be on site.'' Meantime, the City Council Waste Diversion Subcommittee sub·com·mit·tee n. A subordinate committee composed of members appointed from a main committee. subcommittee Noun composed of Councilwomen Marsha McLean and Laurene Weste are touring the roughly 17-acre proposed site on Tuesday. ``This meeting is about making sure the council subcommittee's involved,'' Lange said. ``This is an opportunity to stand on the ridge with them.'' The Fontana-based trash hauler has been working with Needham Ranch developer Mark Gates since state and regional agencies late last year derailed an existing site for the 81,000-square-foot recycling plant. Both the state Public Utilities Commission and Metrolink opposed an initial plan to locate the facility east of San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the near the former Keysor-Century plastics plant in Saugus because the plan would increase traffic at a railroad crossing near Drayton Road. Though Burrtec found a potential alternative at Needham Ranch, the project couldn't break ground by April 15 as intended. The City Council extended the deadline to Oct. 15, with the facility slated to open by August 2006. ``Both (Needham Ranch developer) Mark Gates and Burrtec have been talking with the multiple agencies that are involved,'' Lange said. ``They've been trying to cover all the bases to make sure it's all moving forward.'' The recycling plant is a condition in the $35 million commercial trash contract Burrtec signed with the city in 2003. It's also part of the city's plan to meet or exceed state requirements to divert 50 percent of trash from landfills by 2006 and avoid fines of up to $10,000 a day. ``This MRF MRF Markov Random Field MRF Material Recovery Facility MRF Materials Recycling Facility MRF Motorcycle Riders Foundation MRF Medium Range Forecast (weather forecasting model) MRF Movement for Rights and Freedoms is extremely important to the future of our valley and how our trash will be handled,'' McLean said. ``Everyone realizes that urban landfills are dangerous, they're archaic. One of the solutions is to have a state-of-the-art materials recovery facility to help our city meet the stated goal of 50 percent recycling.'' Eugene Tong, (661) 257-5253 eugene.tong(at)dailynews.com |
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