Trash proving costly to burn at Dillingham landfill

Dillingham began operating this incinerator in the spring of 2015. A year of data shows it’s been costlier than anticipated. (Photo by KDLG)
The incinerator at the Dillingham landfill has been clean-burning trash for a little over a year now.
While it’s doing a good job of cutting down the volume of material that gets buried in limited cell space, it’s not proving as cost efficient to operate as hoped.
The Pennram incinerator needs diesel fuel to operate, mainly to get up to te