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  • Dirty Energy Ash Blamed for Toxic Soil in Greenwich, CT

    - by Bill Cum­mings, Decem­ber 28, 2014, CT Post The dis­cov­ery of PCBs and oth­er con­t­a­m­i­nants at Green­wich High School two years ago is only part of a mosa­ic of can­cer-caus­ing tox­i­cs that have cropped up at var­i­ous sites around one of the nation’s wealth­i­est, most exclu­sive communities. Pol­lu­tants have now been con­firmed at three oth­er loca­tions in Green­wich,…

  • Maryland “Zero-Waste” Plan Draws Fire Over Inclusion of Incineration

    - by Tim­o­thy B. Wheel­er, Decem­ber 15, 2014, The Bal­ti­more Sun With Mary­lan­ders throw­ing away far more trash per per­son than the aver­age Amer­i­can, the O’Mal­ley admin­is­tra­tion released a long-range plan Mon­day to vir­tu­al­ly elim­i­nate plac­ing waste in state land­fills in the next 25 years. The plan is draw­ing mixed reac­tion, how­ev­er, as envi­ron­men­tal­ists crit­i­cize the blue­print­’s…

  • College Trash Habits Cause Concern, as Does Incinerator in Chester

    - by Bob­by Zipp, Novem­ber 20, 2014,  Swarth­more Phoenix Two weeks ago, a group of the Green Advi­sors con­duct­ed a waste audit of Kohlberg Hall and the Sci­ence Cen­ter. The pur­pose of the annu­al audit is to cre­ate a visu­al rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the amount of waste pro­duced by those build­ings and test how well the…

  • Florida Waste Company Seeks to Close Incinerator, Transfer Trash

    - by Brit­tany Wall­man, Decem­ber 9, 2014, Sun Sen­tinel Neigh­bors of the “Mount Trash­more” land­fill in north­ern Broward descend­ed on Coun­ty Hall Tues­day, wor­ried about plans to close a trash-burn­ing incin­er­a­tor in the region. Hun­dreds piled into Coun­ty Com­mis­sion cham­bers, some hav­ing arrived on a bus from the Wyn­moor Vil­lage senior con­do coum­mu­ni­ty in Coconut Creek.…

  • UMaine to Study “Trashanol” Effect in Maine

    - by Grady Trim­ble,  Octo­ber 24, 2014, WLBZ A team of Uni­ver­si­ty of Maine researchers are gear­ing up to study the pos­si­bil­i­ty of bring­ing new tech­nol­o­gy called “Trashanol” to Maine. “Trashanol” is a waste-to-ener­gy tech­nol­o­gy devel­oped by Mary­land-based com­pa­ny Fiberight. Basi­cal­ly, it is a process that con­verts house­hold waste into fuel. The tech­nol­o­gy is spark­ing inter­est in East­ern…

  • Santa Barbara, CA Eyes $50 Million Trash Anaerobic Digestion Project

    [NOTE: this is a pro­pos­al for anaer­o­bic diges­tion of munic­i­pal sol­id waste, not an incin­er­a­tor.  Ener­gy Jus­tice sup­port diges­tion of unre­cy­clable resid­u­als before land­fill­ing as part of a zero waste plan.] - by Joshua Moli­na, August 16, 2014, Noozhawk San­ta Bar­bara Coun­ty is propos­ing a $50 mil­lion trash-to-ener­gy project that would dou­ble the life of the Tajiguas land­fill and rad­i­cal­ly rede­fine trash diver­sion as…

  • Tulsa, OK Chooses Incineration Over Composting

    - by Jar­rel Wade, August 6, 2014, Tul­sa World Trash board mem­bers vot­ed Tues­day to begin the process of seek­ing bids for con­trac­tors to pick up curb­side green waste and take it to the city’s burn plant. The recent­ly intro­duced plan from the Tul­sa Author­i­ty for Recov­ery of Ener­gy is to send green waste to the city’s burn…

  • Covanta Incineration Deal Discourages Rival Recycling Programs

    - Kath­leen McLaugh­lin, August 4, 2014, Indi­anapo­lis Busi­ness Journal The city of Indi­anapo­lis faces finan­cial penal­ties if it launch­es alter­na­tive recy­cling pro­grams, under a pend­ing deal with incin­er­a­tor oper­a­tor Covanta. The Indi­anapo­lis Board of Pub­lic Works will vote Wednes­day on an agree­ment that’s worth more than $112 mil­lion in rev­enue to Cov­an­ta, which would become the…

  • Chester, PA Residents Air Concerns over Covanta Trash Incineration Plan

    UPDATE: despite strong orga­niz­ing efforts, an out­pour­ing of com­mu­ni­ty oppo­si­tion and strong research we’ve com­piled to show how awful this plan is, city coun­cil vot­ed unan­i­mous­ly on Aug 13th to approve Cov­an­ta’s plan that allows 30 years of New York City waste to be brought by train to Chester for incin­er­a­tion.  In fact, it’ll go…

  • Zero Waste Hierarchy

    You’ve prob­a­bly heard the term Zero Waste before, but not been sure about what it meant The peer-reviewed def­i­n­i­tion of Zero Waste by Zero Waste Inter­na­tion­al Alliance involves “design­ing and man­ag­ing prod­ucts and process­es to sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly avoid and elim­i­nate the vol­ume and tox­i­c­i­ty of waste and mate­ri­als, con­serve and recov­er all resources, and not burn or bury them.” Notice…