Ideal Infrastructure for Alachua County

Infrastructure Companies Needed In Alachua

1. Reuse

• Promote and expand existing facilities (small businesses and nonprofits)
• Deconstruction yard and used building materials stores
• Creative reuse center---books, toys, art supplies, clothing, household furnishings
• e scrap refurbishing
• Fix-it shop---bicycles, appliances, furniture
• Pallet repair for local businesses
• Food reuse - for people; for animals
• Refillable bottle washing facilities for microbrewers and wineries
• Equipment rental --- Tie in to internet reuse programs (e.g. LA Shares, Craig's List, Freecycle, EBay)

2. Recycle

• Promote and expand existing facilities (public and private)
• e scrap recycling (after refurbishing)
• Couches and mattresses recycling
• MRFs - Residential; commercial; serial
• Transfer station designed like Urban Ore proposes in Berkeley, with contract from City.

3. Compost

• Build on existing facilities (add food scraps capabilities to windrow facilities)
• Back yard composting and community gardening networks
• On-site composting for large businesses and institutions (e.g., http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/FoodWaste/Compost/InVessel.htm)
• Neighborhood scale composting --- 1 acre for shredding yard trimmings; 1 acre for vermicomposting facility for local restaurants and multifamily unit residents
• Citywide composting - windrow for yard trimmings; in-vessel (AgBag; covered windrows; static aerated piles; active systems) for food scraps from commercial and/or combination of food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard trimmings from residential
• Anaerobic digestion - for food scraps from commercial to create energy; digestate to composting or animal feed (possibly mushroom growing first)

4. Special discards

• Aggregate c and d processing facility (2 acres under roof)
• Restricted materials - Safe Center for chemicals; return to industry
• Product Care Center organized by businesses for drop off by consumer and pick up by producers---batteries, lighting fixtures, tires, household cleaners/chemicals, medicine (targeted materials on-site at retailers and manufacturers; centralized facilities as collection depots)
• Specialized MRF and anaerobic digester for mistakes, to sort out remaining recyclables and leach out toxics

5. Manufacturing

• Crumb rubber facility
• Products from reused wood (e.g., flooring, lumber, furniture)
• Clothing (e.g., from reused textiles)
• Plastic products (e.g., Timbron for EPS; bender board, park furniture, fencing, and marine piers from mixed plastics)
• Scrapture (art from scrap)

6. Resource Recovery Park

• Colocation of reuse, recycling and/or composting facilities
• Processing, manufacturing and/or retail sales
• Shared equipment and services
• Lease space to small businesses and nonprofits
• Research and development of demonstration projects
• Incubate innovations