SODI in pact with Wastren Advantage facilitate recycling efforts

SODI in pact with Wastren Advantage facilitate recycling efforts


By GreentechLead Team: The Southern Ohio Diversification
Initiative (SODI) in collaboration with Wastren Advantage has established
Southern Ohio Asset Recovery (SOAR), to help facilitate the recycling efforts
and revitalization of the Department of Energy (DOE) site in Piketon.

The goal of SOAR is to find the most viable and economic
opportunities of the DOE site and seek the best recycling methods. The DOE
plant’s cleanup schedule will be aggressive in 2013 through 2015 with the
proposed tear-down of the process buildings on the site.

“We must be aligned with that schedule. We are
planning a vendor fair this spring with recyclers, D&D experts and others
to explore capabilities,” said Steve
Moore, president and CEO, Wastren Advantage.

As per the agreement SODI will recycle non-radioactive
scrap metals and other materials from the cleanup of the former uranium
enrichment plant and a portion of the proceeds returned to the local
communities to support economic development initiatives in the four surrounding
counties of Pike, Scioto, Jackson and Ross.

 SODI is the designated DOE Community Reuse Organization
that was formed to help diversify the economies in Pike, Ross, Jackson and
Scioto counties and to develop underutilized lands and facilities on the DOE
property. Wastren Advantage has been doing work for more than 20 years with the
DOE.

Recently, SODI announced the award of
a $150,000 grant to the Pike County Commissioners toward a $2.7 million planned
project to extend sewer services in the Shyville and Schuster Road areas
southeast of Piketon.


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