Editing Arlington, Oregon (section)

=== Waste disposal ===
[[File:Aerial view of Arlington, OR 01.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of Arlington, 2015]]
Arlington is home to a sizable [[Waste Management, Inc|Waste Management]] [[landfill]], notably receiving all of [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]'s trash and some from [[Portland, Oregon]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Mulady |first=Kathy |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/323082_trashtrain10.html |newspaper=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] |title=Where your Seattle trash ends up |date=July 10, 2007 |access-date=2008-04-06}}{{dead link|date=December 2012}}</ref> In March 2010, Waste Management announced<ref>{{Cite web |last=LLC |first=S4 Energy Solutions |title=S4 Energy Solutions Announces Plasma Gasification Project |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/s4-energy-solutions-announces-plasma-gasification-project-86259507.html |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=www.prnewswire.com |language=en}}</ref> their plans to build a waste [[gasification]] plant next to their landfill that uses a [[plasma gasification]] technology that at the time was considered experimental. The plasma gasification plant was built in conjunction with the company, InEnTec, whose efforts to build such plants in California and elsewhere have met protest.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Greenaction - Press Release 6/16/08 |url=http://greenaction.org/incinerators/redbluff/pr061608.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711104217/http://greenaction.org/incinerators/redbluff/pr061608.shtml |archive-date=2012-07-11 |access-date= |website=greenaction.org}}</ref> The plant went into pilot operation in November 2011.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Wolman |first=David |url=https://www.wired.com/2012/01/ff_trashblaster/ |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |title=High-Powered Plasma Turns Garbage Into Gas |date=January 20, 2012 |access-date=2016-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Surma |first=Jeff |url=http://www.deq.state.or.us/lq/pubs/docs/sw/convtechnology/CTRulemaking120127S4EnergyPresentation.pdf |title=Gasification of Municipal Solid Waste Using the InEnTec InEnTec Plasma Enhanced Melter |date=January 27, 2012 |access-date=2016-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220044804/http://www.deq.state.or.us/lq/pubs/docs/sw/convtechnology/CTRulemaking120127S4EnergyPresentation.pdf |archive-date=2016-12-20 |url-status=dead}}</ref>