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Tag: waste to energy

  • Allentown, PA Kills Controversial Waste Incinerator Proposal

    - by Emi­ly Opi­lo, Octo­ber 1, 2014, McClatchy-Tri­bune Region­al News More than two years after the deal’s con­tro­ver­sial approval, Allen­town has ter­mi­nat­ed its con­tract with Delta Ther­mo Ener­gy, end­ing spec­u­la­tion about whether the com­pa­ny would ever build a pro­posed waste-to-ener­gy facil­i­ty in the city. In a let­ter dat­ed Sept. 26, Allen­town solic­i­tor Jer­ry Sny­der wrote that Bucks Coun­ty-based Delta…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Aborted Fetuses Sent to Oregon, Incinerated for Energy

    [No inten­tion of get­ting into pro-choice vs. pro-life discussion–it’s just impor­tant to know where your ener­gy comes from. ‑Ed.] - by Joe Scha­ef­fer, April 23, 2014. Source: News­max Abort­ed human fetus­es are being shipped from British Colum­bia to the Unit­ed States, where they are incin­er­at­ed to pro­vide elec­tric­i­ty for Ore­gon residents. The British Colum­bia Health Min­istry…