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Recycling Fun Facts
Did you know....
SPSA collected 309 tons of aluminum in 2006 - enough to make four 747 jets.
SPSA recycled enough office, newsprint and cardboard in 2006 to save over 250,000 trees.
SPSA recycled 1,692 tons of glass in 2006 - enough to make 13.53 million baby food jars.
SPSA recycled over 3 million pounds of plastic in 2006 - enough to make over 370,000 soda bottles (2-liter).
SPSA recycled over 1.3 million pounds of tin and steel in 2006 - that's enough tin and steel to make 13,000 refrigerators.
SPSA recycled 42,794 cubic yards of yard waste in 2006 - that's enough to make over 577,000 bags of mulch and compost.
SPSA is a proud member of America's First Region.
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PRESS ROOM SPSA Receives Unsolicited Proposal for Acquisition of Waste-To-Energy Facilities
(Chesapeake, VA) – The Board of the Southeastern Public Service Authority of Virginia (SPSA) has received and accepted for conceptual phase consideration an unsolicited Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act (PPEA) proposal from Covanta Energy Corporation for the acquisition of SPSA’s waste-to-energy facilities located in Portsmouth, Virginia.
SPSA will accept for simultaneous consideration under SPSA’s duly adopted PPEA Guidelines additional competing proposals for the acquisition of these facilities. For consideration, competing proposals must be submitted to SPSA not later than 4:30 p.m., local time, on Friday, August 15, 2008. Copies of a Notice regarding this matter and SPSA’s PPEA Guidelines will be posted on SPSA’s website today.
Copies of the Covanta Proposal and any competing proposals are available for inspection and review at SPSA’s offices located at 723 Woodlake Drive, Chesapeake, Virginia 23320. Parties who are interested in submitting competing proposals may contact ppeainquiries@spsa.com. ###
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