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A unique post-consumer and post-industrial waste separation facility is being considered for Falls Township.
Officials from Texas-based Continuus Materials came before the Falls Township Board of Supervisors Monday evening to announce the municipality was the first of five planned sites across the country for similar separation facilities. The planned site is an approximately 10-acre property owned by Waste Management, which owns part of Continuus Materials, on New Ford Mill Road.
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The company is looking to build their facility near the landfill because four to six trucks of waste would be sent to the facility per hour. The separated waste would be used to create Everboard, a high-performance cover board for commercial roofing, or returned to the landfill, Continuus Materials Senior Vice President Allan Bradshaw said.
“It literally is the garbage bag that you put in the trash can,” he said. “The vast majority of that paper and plastic is recoverable, completely without a human hand touching it.”
Bradshaw said Everboard lasts about 20 years and can be recycled to make new boards.
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“That’s the great thing about it,” he said.
The facility would not produce levels of emissions that are needed for pollution mitigation technology, and the process does not use water or chemicals to create Everboard from waste.
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The company would employ about 100 people in “good paying jobs” once fully operational, Bradshaw said.
If the company’s plan goes according to their hopes, construction would begin in May 2021 and be completed by October 2022 with 340 construction workers needed. Continuus Materials still needs to bring formal plans before the township.
Tom Jennings, the attorney representing Continuus Materials, explained that the facility is not expected to decrease landfill fees that are estimated to bring the township $18 million in 2021.
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Bradshaw said the company is looking to remove 1 million tons of waste a year from landfills within the U.S. The company has also been talking to partners in China and India about bringing the product over to those countries.
“We’re looking forward to working with, y’all, and having a first,” Bradshaw said.
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Falls Township Board of Supervisors Chairperson Jeff Dence said the project and product makes sense. He noted it is proposed for a heavy industry area.
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