schaffer_historicizing


 * Historicizing a Project**

To begin: What is the history I’m looking for? The history of industrial composting? The history of waste management in the US? The history of waste activism in the US? The history of waste activism in Troy?

1965: Solid Waste Disposal Act passed to regulate municipal waste disposal technologies.

1970: Resource Recovery Act passed to encourage waste reduction and resource recovery.

October 21, 1976: Resource and Conservation Recovery Act passed, sets goals for protecting human/environmental health from waste, conserving resources, and reducing waste.

1982: Bottle Bill passed in New York State to offer 5 cent refund on bottles and cans.

1984: Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments require phasing out of land disposal of hazardous waste.

March-October 1987: Mobro 4000 garbage barge unable to find a port to unload garbage, precipitating declaration of “landfill crisis.”

March 1987: Solid Waste Management Plan published by New York DEC in response to waste concerns.

1988: Soild Waste Management Act encourages New York State to reduce, reuse, recover, or landfill waste.

December 1993: Troy closes its landfill.

June 2000: “Improving Recycling in Troy” report submitted to city council. Reactions unclear.

2007: Eureka! Recycling in Minneapolis, MN launches commercial composting program.

2010: Sierra Processing Facility in Albany opens

October 2010: Troy implements single stream recycling.

December 2010: New York DEC publishes //Beyond Waste// plan, which emphasizes reductions in landfilled waste.

May 2011: Waste hauling giant Waste Management announces investment in Wilmington Organics Recycling Center in Delaware and intention to build new organics processing site in Florida.

November 5, 2011: Transition Troy’s public forum on food waste.

April 5, 2012: Citizens Working Group on Composting created by city council.

June 15, 2012: CWG-C appointed.

December 15, 2012: CWG-C submits report to City Council.

January 16, 2013: CWG-C presents report at meeting of Technology and Sustainability Committee Meeting.

January 20, 2013: Meeting between CWG-C and Transition Troy Composting Working Group members; CWG-C disbanded, Troy Compost formed.

February 6, 2013: Troy Compost meeting to form working groups

2020-2025: projected closing of Colonie Landfill that Troy currently uses