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County board directs administration to pursue waste-to-energy options, sets limits on site locations
Summary
After hours of public comment and expert presentations, the Miami‑Dade County Board voted to adopt policy favoring a waste‑to‑energy (WTE) component in a broader solid‑waste portfolio and directed the county mayor to negotiate with industry proposers under specific geographic limits and conditions.
The Miami‑Dade County Commission directed the county mayor to pursue negotiated agreements with interested waste‑to‑energy and related technology vendors and to return recommendations to the board within a targeted timeline. The board adopted a policy that a WTE option should be included as part of a broader portfolio (recycling, composting, diversion and landfilling) while setting geographic limits for siting and asking the administration to explore multiple delivery modalities.
The move followed a briefing by county staff and market research consultant AtkinsRealis, which described responses from more than three dozen firms across several waste‑management categories. Ross Byers, project lead for AtkinsRealis, told the board the county had solicited information from the private sector and assembled a road map of “phase 1: siting and information; phase 2: implementation of advanced…
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