Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is seeking a developer for a long-planned composting and recycling facility that it calls Green Acres.
The airport has rescheduled its information session for Feb. 19 at its technical support campus at 2 p.m. for businesses interested in designing, constructing and operating the facility.
The Green Acres ATL Energy Park, to be located on a 39-acre site that sits south of the fifth runway off Forest Parkway in Clayton County, would be built to handle at least 90 percent of the waste generated by the airport as well as yard trimmings from the city of Atlanta’s public works.
Green Acres has been envisioned since 2013 as a project to help the airport address some of the challenges it has faced in reaching its environmental goals for recycling and composting. A 2009 recycling program failed and the airport only recycled about 5 percent of its waste in 2012. A composting initiative for food courts in its new concessions contracts stalled after the composting center it planned to use shut down.
