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The Blackburn Resource Recovery Facility (Landfill) receives approximately 650 tons of municipal and construction waste daily employing 19 people. |
| The Landfill Gas-to-Energy Facility, consisting of 3, 1-Megawatt generators, which burns the methane that is produced naturally in the landfill, generates enough electricity to power approximately 1,400 average size home. |
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Gregory Wood Products is a high-tech dimensional lumber facility employing 115 people. Its byproducts of wood waste are being used by another business, Pallet One. Other byproducts of wood shavings, bark, sawdust, and other wood wastes will be used an impending component, the Bio-Energy Facility. |
| Pallet One, Inc. is the largest new pallet manufacturer in the United States and began recycling used pallets in 2008. Employing approximately 29 people at the Catawba County location, Pallet One uses wood slats from Gregory Wood Product’s waste stream as a raw material for constructing new wooden pallets. |
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Feedstock Crops for use in the Biodiesel Research Facility are planted around Blackburn Resource Recovery Facility (Landfill) utilizing required buffer acreage. Sunflowers are grown in the summer and canola in the fall. |
| Partnering with Appalachian State University, the County is expected to begin construction in fall 2009 on the Biodiesel Research Facility consisting of 7,260 square foot processing building an 800 sqaure foot remote chemical storage building, where graduate students from ASU will test biodiesel produced from feedstock crops grown around the Blackburn Landfill. |
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Hmong Demonstration Site consists of approximately 1-acre of landfill buffer land leased to the Hmong Association for use as a horticultural demonstration site. Catawba County Cooperative Extension is providing oversight of the Association's project and serves as a liaison between the Association and North Carolina A&T State University. Construction is underway on a high tunnel structure. A high tunnel is an unheated greenhouse utilized for frost protection and having the potential to extend the growing season by 6 weeks or more depending on the crop and will be utilized to demonstrate season extending techniques and other advantages/disadvantages. This project recently completed a "Grower's School" providing a series of educational workshops for more than 20 Hmong farmers. |
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