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Page Two Thus, abatement or reduction of our dependence on landfills for disposal of mixed muncipcil wastes may be needed because of; I. Public attitudes. Reduction of land available for agricultural or other development. 3. The unsuitable soil conditions present~ High water table problems. 5. Long term site maintenance (cover and turf). Long term monitoring and custodial care to assure no problems develop. 7. Degradation of ground water and soils that require remedial action. 8. Cost of remedial actions. Total cost of landfiiling (environmental affects). 10. Cost of second generation landfills. The County's abatement report suggests that the County will pursue the application of all appropriate waste reductions, separation, and/or waste processing abatement methods as they logically and realistically occur in the waste management system. Some of these, such as source separated curb side pickup, recycling centers, or yard waste composting, may be better provided by the city or other communit~ groups, whereas, some such as waste processing may be more appropriate for County implementation. The County, in preparing the abatement report, considered all of the abatement I strategies: their advantages, disadvantages, limitations, and implementation capability. It was the County's findings that all of the soft/non-technical abatement strategies can and should be implemented but that they will have only limited impact in reducing volume of solid waste requiring landfill disposal (possibly 15%). (See Appendix I & II.) Thus some type of high technology/proce~__sJng abatement will be necessary to obtain the level of abatement suggested by the 1980 Solid Waste Act. At the time the abatement report was preporeds it appeared that the most viable processing alternative was the production ~d marketing of RDF (refuse derived fuel) to moderate sized process energy users.