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CHEROKEE, IA. (April 1, 2006) – The Cherokee County Solid Waste Commission is working on an estimated $2.6 million project that would convert paper and light plastics from the waste stream into palletized fuel. This fuel will then be sold and used by two or three businesses that wish to purchase the pellets. Around 70 percent of what’s now going into dumps will be needed to produce these pellets, tripling the life of landfills.

“The pellets would sell for $3.25 per million Btus,” Lundell Enterprises’ engineer Brooks states. With the increase in natural gas and coal, pellets are able to compete. Lundell Enterprises has sold equipment overseas since the mid ‘80s, but now is getting interest here in the U.S. Advocates state that now is the time for solid waste conversion.

“Iowa has an opportunity to be known as an energy producing state,” Senator Wieck said. “We already have ethanol. We’re moving into the biodiesel fuel; we’ve done a lot over the last handful of years on wind energy. Now we’ve got another piece.”

As of now the Cherokee Mental Health Institute has qualified for an energy study through an Iowa Natural Resources Committee. They will be purchasing two boilers to burn the pellets to heat their campus and for laundry. Another consumer of the pellets will be a Soy Energy biodiesel plant erecting in Marcus that is expected to be in operation by July 2007.

“I’m not a solid environmentalist,” Senetor Wieck claims. “But I also believe that you and I and everyone else out there have a window of time that we spend on this earth. It’s OK with me that during my time on this earth that we do something that leaves the earth better for my children or my grandchildren.”

About Lundell Enterprises Inc.
Lundell Enterprises Inc. has been in the recycling equipment industry for 30 years. They started manufacturing industrial duty densifiers in the early ‘80s which was developed from their prior agricultural cubing technology. Since then, they’ve been refining their recovery process producing the highest quality municipal solid waste fuel pellets on the market. For more information, visit http://www.lundellent.com.