waste – anti-incineration

In a recent article from Lloyd Alter in Treehugger.com, he notes that Sweden may be sending amount of waste to their landfills, but the fact is “they incinerate about 50 percent of their waste to make heat and energy. And even in their own website, they admit that is not the best approach, that it is … Read More

All incinerators need landfills despite the myth of “zero waste to landfill” put forward by garbage incineration proponents. Citizens in Saugus, MA, have been trying to close an ash landfill for 14 years. The need to expand the facility to take more incinerator ash gives them a new opportunity. Zero waste sends less materials to landfill … Read More

A few years ago it looked like Maryland would start to resemble states like Connecticut and Massachusetts that invested heavily in garbage incineration. Baltimore has a downtown incinerator, Harford County wanted to expand theirs, Washington County wanted its own facility, Frederick and Carroll Counties were under contract for building a new 1,500 ton per day plant, a … Read More

Shlomo Dowen of United Kingdom Without Incineration Network has been following developments in China, where despite the difficulty of communities communicating with each other, citizens groups have resorted to demonstrations to force local officials to halt plans for garbage burning in two locales, Nanxian in Hunan Province and Haian County in Zhejiang Province, in one week. … Read More