{"id":13484,"date":"2012-04-02T18:51:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/lets-settle-clevelands-garbage-future\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:50:25","slug":"lets-settle-clevelands-garbage-future","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/lets-settle-clevelands-garbage-future","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Settle Cleveland\u2019s Garbage Future"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13484","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-article","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-incineration","authors-neil-seldman"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":10425,"background_color":"","article_type":[134],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":[87],"impact_areas":false,"abstract":"

In the 1980\u2019s Cleveland considered garbage incineration. It was rejected, but no positive action was taken. For thirty years Cleveland\u2019s valuable materials flowed to low-cost area landfills. This left the city vulnerable to the next push for incineration. The push came three years ago; this plan fell to pieces a few days ago. What will the City do now? … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","authors_tax":[605]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

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Citizens have been waiting a long time. In the 1980\u2019s the city looked at garbage incineration. It was rejected, but no positive action was taken. For thirty years Cleveland\u2019s valuable materials flowed to low-cost area landfills. This left the city vulnerable to the next push for incineration. The push came three years ago and the city administration, utility corporations, foundations and others went for it. The plan fell to pieces a few days ago when the City fired the project developer (see Cleveland fires waste-to-energy consultant for faulty financial analyses<\/a>). \u00a0\u00a0The US EPA said the permit violated the Clean Air Act, and told the City and Ohio EPA they should go back to the drawing board (the permit is in limbo at this point).<\/p>\n

The victory for taxpayers and environmental activists was welcomed. Ohio Citizen Action, Earth Day Coalition, Environmental Health Watch, and Sierra Club put together an impressive coalition that both identified the shortcomings of the proposed plant, and, with assistance from ILSR, pointed to a far better alternative. The citizen coalition organized hundreds of residents to attend six public hearings in six weeks to express their opposition to the proposal.\u00a0 City Councilman Brian Cummins took the lead in opposing the project on Council, and several others, including Jay Westbrook, Tony Brancatelli, Mike Polensek, and Zach Reed repeatedly questioned the wisdom of the proposal.<\/p>\n

The coalition brought out numerous key points that resonated throughout the wards.<\/p>\n