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Vance Report Highlights York County Resource Recovery Center  

HARRISBURG – The York County Resource Recovery Center, which turns household waste into electricity, is spotlighted in the May edition of the Vance Report, said host Pat Vance (R-Cumberland/York). 

For 20 years the center has been burning all York County household garbage, along with some from neighboring communities, in accordance with strict environmental standards. It has a capacity to process 1,344 tons of waste a day. The electricity then is sold to Met-Ed. 

"The process is very interesting," Vance said. "Every 100 trucks of garbage produce only 10 trucks of ash, which then is used as alternate landfill cover. This process saves the equivalent of about 13 acres of landfill space a year. In addition, there is very little odor, even on the tipping floor where the trucks dump the garbage."             

Vance's show airs on Blue Ridge Communications at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays on Channel 8. Comcast Cable that serves the Shippensburg area will air the program at 4 p.m. on Thursdays on Channel 21. Comcast Cable that serves the Carlisle area will air the show at the same time but on Channel 11. York Community Access shows the program at 9 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month on Channel 16. Finally, Comcast Cable in the Greater Harrisburg area will air the program on Channel 20 with no set time schedule.

Vance's district includes all of Cumberland County and Carroll, Fairview, Franklin, Monaghan, Warrington and Washington townships and Dillsburg, Franklintown and Wellsville boroughs in York County.

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