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Incinerators Are Wrong Answer, Need Zero Waste

January 27, 2015 Paul Connett, www.commondreams.org , ,
The comeback of trash incinerators is being welcomed by the corporations that build them and the politicians who see them as a “quick-fix” to the garbage problem, but let’s be serious — they are not a sustainable solution. Environmentalists rightly remain skeptical about the claims that all the air pollution problems have been “solved” as proponents claim—especially the emissions of highly toxic and ultrafine nanoparticles that modern equipment is not very good at keeping from getting into the air. As someone who has successfully fought against these facilities for 30 years I would urge us to ask other questions, too, and to re-imagine what it means to be truly sustainable society.

Trash Incinerators Generate Community Opposition

January 13, 2015 Timothy Williams, www.nytimes.com , ,
Rising from a denuded landscape not far from this area’s famed beaches, the nation’s first new commercial garbage incinerator in 20 years is about to be fired up, ready to blast up to 3,000 tons of trash a day into electricity for thousands of houses. With landfills shunned, recycling programs stalled and the country’s record-setting trash output unyielding, new waste-to-energy plants are being eyed as a path to salvation. Facilities similar to the $670 million incinerator here, common in Europe, are under consideration in Massachusetts, Nevada, Virginia, Wisconsin and elsewhere. Americans produce 4.4 pounds of trash per person per day, the most in the world, and the talk of returning to incineration, industry experts say, is an acknowledgment of defeat in the effort to reduce output and step up recycling.
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