GBB to Assist Mojave Desert & Mountain Joint Powers Authority with Strategic Planning

(Fairfax, VA – September 8, 2008) - Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) announced today that it has contracted with the Mojave Desert & Mountain Joint Powers Authority (JPA), in Victorville, CA, to prepare a strategy to assist Victor Valley communities with future resource management decisions. The strategy, aimed at maximum feasible landfill disposal reduction, will consider resource generation, collection, pre-processing, processing, composting and energy issues. Joining the GBB Project Team for the assignment is RRT Design & Construction, Inc. (RRT).

“The Victor Valley Materials Recovery Facility opened in 1995,” JPA Administrator John Davis said. “It is time to look at expansion while applying new technology to increase recycling, expand composting, and apply appropriate energy recovery. GBB’s proposal best met our needs, and they have the experience to carry it out.”

“The JPA has provided an excellent processing infrastructure with which to help its members achieve cost-effective processing of recyclables,” said Harvey Gershman, GBB President. “However, with the increasing value of recyclables, benefits of composting, and the greater value of energy as well, there are opportunities that the Authority should consider in its efforts to minimize what goes to landfill disposal.  The overall objective of our efforts will be to present alternatives that can achieve a 50-75% increased diversion level for recycling and composting, and to understand reasonable alternatives for converting the remainder as a feedstock for refuse-derived fuel and/or energy recovery approaches.”

The JPA consists of nine members, jointly sharing their authority to plan and implement solid waste diversion programs: Adelanto, Apple Valley, Barstow, Big Bear Lake, Needles, San Bernardino County, Twenty-nine Palms, Victorville and Yucca Valley. Formed in 1991, the JPA financed and manages the Victor Valley Materials Recovery Facility, processing 150 tons a day of recycling from JPA members; administers the Mojave Desert Recycling Market Development Zone, working to find uses for recycled materials; sponsors the Mojave Desert and Mountain Master Composters, with over 800 trained home composters working in five regional groups, and; negotiated long-term landfill use agreements, stabilizing pricing while encouraging recycling.

GBB’s Project Team member RRT is an engineering, equipment and construction services company specializing in solid waste processing and recycling. With an innovative customer service approach, RRT has engineered and constructed for the benefit of owners and operators one of the highest number of waste processing facilities in North America.

GBB is a national solid waste management consulting firm founded in 1980 that works on solid waste collection, processing, recycling and disposal issues and assists in planning, procuring, and implementing sound, cost-effective facilities and services at the local, state and national levels for both the public and private sectors. For more information on the firm and its products and services, visit www.gbbinc.com or call 1-800-573-5801.

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