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Stop Coal Ash Going into Landfills
- Target: EPA, TVA, Etc.
- Sponsored by: GBC
A company called Golden Bear Ceramics Company in California (http://www.goldenbearceramics.com/) has developed a technolgy that offers such a solution. It is able to use a variety of mineral wastes such as fly ash, metal mine tailings, aggregate fines from rock quarries, ash from biomass plants, ash from co-generation plants, etc. that normally are disposed of in landfills. The company has a process that will recycle this material and make high quality stone and ceramics floor tile, wall cladding, and roof tile.
About 80% of the tile used in the U.S. is imported from overseas. This technology would allow tile to be produced in the U.S. Plants would be built witin 500 miles of their market, greatly reducing transportation costs and the air emissions associated with transportation. The techology also uses less energy than a conventional ceramics plant, reducing global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. By using mineral wastes from other manufacturing processes, the need to mine clay material for conventional ceramics or mine rock from quarries for tiles is eliminated.
Like many new technologiest that are developing in the green world, Golden Bear Ceramics is trying to commercialize the technology. Your support of the technology to help move its development ahead is important. In particular, use of this technology could have prevented the Tennessee Valley Authority fly ash spill and it is important fpr the EPA, TVA, and others know of its existance and support its development.
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