The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that a co-generation energy plant on Manistee Lake may start burning more wood products after what company officials described as a successful test burn of construction debris trucked in from Chicago. The TES Filer City Station plant burned two 15-ton truckloads of construction and demolition wood. The plant currently burns about 750 tons of coal per day along with around 100 tons of wood byproducts from Packaging Corp. of America's nearby paper mill and about 20 tons of tire chips. The plant has a permit to burn a small amount of construction waste at their plant, but it has to be 95.5% clean wood. Some residents are concerned that the plant will be the one charged with monitoring the waste for other materials like painted or treated wood and insulation.

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