Job Creation: Reuse and Recycling vs. Disposal Type of Operation Jobs per 10,000 tons ofdis­card­ed mate­r­i­al per year Prod­uct Reuse Com­put­er Reuse 296 Tex­tile Reclamation 85 Misc. Durables Reuse 62 Wood­en Pal­let Repair 28 Recy­cling-based Manufacturers 25 Paper Mills 18 Glass Prod­uct Manufacturers 26 Plas­tic Prod­uct Manufacturers 93 Con­ven­tion­al Mate­ri­als Recov­ery Facil­i­ties (recy­cling sort­ing centers) 10 Com­post­ing 4…

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Cam­den for Clean Air formed in May 2020 to stop plans to keep the Cov­an­ta Cam­den trash incin­er­a­tor alive by hav­ing it serve as the pow­er source for a pro­posed micro­grid. The pro­posed micro­grid would keep the pow­er going for the Cam­den Coun­ty Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties Author­i­ty (CCMUA) sewage treat­ment plant in Cam­den so that it…

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by Mike Ewall, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network [See relat­ed inter­view here.] If I were to write a doc­u­men­tary expos­ing the dis­mal state of recy­cling in the U.S., I’d be right to point out how much is not being recy­cled, how pol­lut­ing recy­cling can be, and how inad­e­quate it is to try to solve the…

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Albany Coun­ty, NY is home to many waste burn­ing threats. Years ago, Albany City host­ed the noto­ri­ous ANSWERS trash incin­er­a­tor, a con­tro­ver­sial case of envi­ron­men­tal racism. That incin­er­a­tor has been closed since 1995. How­ev­er, the coun­ty also hosts four sewage sludge incin­er­a­tors (two still oper­at­ing, and being phased out and replaced with anaer­o­bic digesters), and…

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TAKE ACTION!   to con­tact your local offi­cials before they vote soon on where your trash goes! The Covanta Plymouth trash incinerator is Montgomery County’s #1 Air Polluter Mont­gomery Coun­ty recent­ly received an “F” grade from the Amer­i­can Lung Asso­ci­a­tion for smog in their 2019 State of the Air report. The Asth­ma and Aller­gy Foun­da­tion ranked…

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Seneca Coun­ty — Town of Romu­lus in Seneca Lake was threat­ened by a plan by Cir­cu­lar enerG to build a new 2,649 ton/day trash incin­er­a­tor. Gas Free Seneca and Seneca Lake Guardian lead the fight to stop it. It was defeat­ed in May 2019 upon pas­sage of a state bill ban­ning incin­er­a­tion in the Fin­ger…

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Our years of work in Bal­ti­more are pay­ing off! On March 7, 2019, the Bal­ti­more’s May­or Pugh signed into law our Bal­ti­more Clean Air Act. This is the cul­mi­na­tion of years of work to close the high­ly pol­lut­ing waste incin­er­a­tors in the city. It’s also a new phase in our ongo­ing work to tran­si­tion Bal­ti­more from…

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May 9, 2019: 40 Orga­ni­za­tions call on May­or Ken­ney to Stop Burn­ing Philly’s Trash See the state­ment to the may­or, and the press release. In addi­tion to these 40 envi­ron­men­tal, com­mu­ni­ty, pub­lic health, and busi­ness orga­ni­za­tions, the Amer­i­can Sus­tain­able Busi­ness Coun­cil wrote a sep­a­rate let­ter to May­or Ken­ney mak­ing the eco­nom­ic case for end­ing incin­er­a­tion…

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