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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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