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It is the goal of the Catawba County Regional EcoComplex and Resource Recovery Facility to develop a system that will recover all useable products and by-products from a group of private and public partners located in a close-knit defined area, the EcoComplex. This group of partners will work together to use each other’s waste products either as a source of energy (electricity, steam, or heat) or as a raw material for the production of their own product (pallets, lumber, compost, brick shapes/art). These shared relationships bring the old saying of “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” into real life. In addition to these shared relationships, the EcoComplex is also focused on making and using “green” energy and on the economic development of Catawba County.

The key Partners in the shared relationships of the EcoComplex are:

• The Blackburn Resource Recovery Facility (Landfill and Recycling/Waste Diversion)
• The Blackburn Landfill Gas to Energy Electricity Generating Facility
• Gregory Wood Products (Lumber Manufacturing)
• PalletOne, Inc. (Pallet Manufacturing)
• The Bio-Energy Facility (Wood burning; electricity, steam, and heat production)
• The Biosolids Processing Facility (Wastewater sludge management for Catawba County)
• University Research (Bio-diesel production, testing, crop testing, and algae testing)
• Composting/Soils Amendment Company
• Brick Specialties Company
• Greenhouse

• EcoComplex & Resource Recovery Facility
• Catawba County County Regional EcoComplex and Resource Recovery Facility, July 2008 Update