Tag: incinerator

  • Transform Don’t Trash NYC

    – by Gavin Kearney (Environmental Justice Director, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest) & Eddie Bautista (Executive Director, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance) New York City’s homes and businesses generate anywhere from 6 to 8 million tons of mixed solid waste every year – more than any other city in the country. And the manner…

  • New York City Outsourcing Incineration

    – by Dara Hunt Congratulations to Energy Justice Network and other organizations on stopping a Covanta contract to incinerate DC waste in an Environmental Justice community.  Unfortunately, we have not succeeded in stopping New York City’s plan, and a 20-year contract with Covanta Energy to transport and burn 800,000 tons per year, or more, of…

  • Remembering Marvin Wheeler

    – by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network  When we formed Allentown Residents for Clean Air (ARCA) in 2012, we couldn’t have kicked it off without Marvin Wheeler, who found us as an active member of the West Park Civic Association. As a retired school nurse, Marvin understood the health threat posed by the plan to burn 150…

  • Chinese Incinerator Plan Cancelled After Thousands Join Protests

    – by Mimi Lau, April 9, 2015, South China Morning Post A western Guangdong city has cancelled a plan to build an incinerator that prompted a protest – of up to 10,000 people on some accounts – during which three police cars were flipped and a duty office vandalised. Luoding city government posted two letters on…

  • Shuttered Claremont, New Hampshire Incinerator to Reopen

    – by Patrick O’Grady, April 15, 2015, Valley News The shuttered Wheelabrator incinerator on Grissom Lane was sold at auction Tuesday for $1.63 million, with the buyer saying he plans to use it to burn municipal waste. As several bidders stood outside the plant hoping to pick up pieces of equipment at a bargain price, auctioneer…

  • Landfill Keeps Rhode Island Incinerator Debate Alive

    – by Tim Faulkner, March 4, 2015, Eco RI News The seemingly annual debate about building a waste incinerator in Rhode Island resolved little on the issue this year, except that any such facility is too expensive and likely at least 10 years from ever being built. The sole advocate for considering an incinerator is the…

  • Syracuse City Council Seeks Alternatives to Incineration

    – by Tim Knauss, March 2, 2015, Syracuse.com The city council today voted against a 20-year extension of Syracuse’s garbage disposal contract with the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency, citing a desire to pursue alternatives to trash incineration. Syracuse remains obligated under its existing contract to haul waste to OCCRA’s trash plant near Jamesville through June…

  • Contaminated Love Canal Soil Going to Nebraska Incinerator

    – by Richard Piersol, March 1, 2015, Lincoln Journal Star About a thousand tons of contaminated soil from the notorious Love Canal environmental disaster in New York is being shipped by rail to Kimball for incineration because the company that is disposing of it ran into objections from Canadians, who didn’t want it. Love Canal, a…

  • One Bin for All?

    – by Melanie Scruggs, Texas Campaign for the Environment Right now, the City of Houston is expanding its two-bin or “single-stream” recycling program to finally cover all the nearly 350,000 homes that it services. As an avid zero waster, you may be thinking two things: 1. It is fantastic that Houstonians finally have access to a…

  • Out of the Garbage Can and Into the Fire

    – by Mike Ewall So-called “waste-to-energy” (WTE) is usually a euphemism for trash incineration, disposing of waste while making modest amounts of electricity and sometimes steam for heating purposes. Now, waste-to-fuels (WTF?) — turning waste into liquid fuels for transportation — is starting to emerge as a subset of WTE. Noting their acronym problem, the…