Lipstick on a Pig!

We're all Down Wind!

Trash?? The hidden municipal cost that we all pay through

local budgets and environmental contamination.

Those testifying at the DEP Hearing noted that their neighbors

took trash to surrounding communities to dispose of for FREE
and they offered many suggestions that would reduce the volume
of waste that should be employed before we genuflect to
a profitable industry. We know the solutions!

Let's work together to "Reduce, Reuse & Recyle" !

This is another issue in which 'Special Interest' are pushing their

agenda - in this case, for incineration. Let's not turn back the clock.

Please add your comments to the request below.

Thanks for all you do!

From: Janet S. Domenitz, MASSPIRG Executive Director
Subject: Lipstick on a pig
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 4:12 PM

Tell the DEP to uphold the 20-year-old moratorium on incinerators, and get the Commonwealth on a path to Zero Waste Something happened right before the holidays, and it wasn't happy. In December, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) proposed lifting Massachusetts' 20-year-old moratorium on allowing more incineration.   The garbage industry is calling the proposed technology "waste to energy," but it's really just lipstick on a pig. "Gasification" is just another form of high-heat burning, that results in air pollution emissions of dioxins, heavy metals and other toxins. [1] And as the people of Massachusetts decided 20 years ago, more burning is nothing but bad news.   Tell the DEP Commissioner: No more incinerators. We want a plan for Zero Waste.   Massachusetts is at a crossroads. We can go down the path of more burning and burying, meaning dirtier air and water and more big, wasteful contracts to the garbage industry. Or we can go down the path of Zero Waste, meaning a more sustainable Massachusetts, where we immediately start wasting less, and reusing and recycling more.   Believe me: The DEP is hearing plenty from the garbage industry right now. We need to show them how the public feels.   Send a message to the DEP right now: Massachusetts is ready for Zero Waste.   We already burn or bury more than half of our waste, and however attractive "waste to energy" sounds, the fact is that the process by which waste is turned into energy is just another form of high-heat burning, which results in emissions of dioxins, heavy metals and other toxins. Your voices, and our advocacy alongside other groups, have already convinced the DEP to hold a public comment period on this terrible proposal.   Please send a message to the DEP and add your voice to our plea: No more burning. Let's reduce, reuse and recycle all the way to Zero Waste.   Sincerely, Janet S. Domenitz MASSPIRG Executive Director   [1] An Industry Blowing Smoke: 10 Reasons Why Gasification, Pyrolysis and Plasma Incineration are Not "Green Solutions" [pdf], Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, June 2009. Support MASSPIRG. Contributions by people just like you make our advocacy possible. Your contribution supports a staff of organizers, attorneys, scientists and other professionals who monitor government and corporate decisions and advocate on the public’s behalf.