This is another SCHEME being perpetrated on taxpayers!
The cost of municipal waste disposal is significant and little has been done to address it.
Incineration is NOT a solution!
Please add your voice to oppose this SCHEME!
In just
three days, we'll be out of time to tell the Massachusetts Department of
Environmental Protection (MassDEP) to uphold the 22-year ban on building new
polluting incinerators in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts already has seven trash burners that incinerate more than 3
million tons every year - that is more than enough. That's why I was
shocked when this winter, MassDEP suggested we lift the decades-old moratorium
on new incinerators.
Tell MassDEP and Governor Patrick: Keep the door closed on new
incinerators. We want a plan for Zero Waste.
Because of pressure from the trash industry, they want to open the door
for more archaic, dirty burners when common sense says that door should stay
closed. Burning trash doesn't make it disappear: it pollutes
our air and water.1 The garbage industry is calling
the proposed technology "waste to energy," but we know an incinerator is an
incinerator is an incinerator. Whether you call it "gasification," "plasma arc"
or "pyrolysis," it is just another form of burning trash and creating a landfill
in the sky, adding more pollution to our air.
We know what will actually get us on the path towards Zero
Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. In fact, much of what
currently goes to our seven incinerators could be recycled right
now.2 Paper, plastics, metals... It's obvious, but it
will take courage for state officials to stand up to the trash industry's
demands.
We have until this Friday to get our voices heard on this important
issue. On March 1, the state will stop accepting public comments on
whether to lift the ban, so send your message to MassDEP
today!
Sincerely,
Sylvia Broude
Executive Director
Toxics Action Center
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.
2 MassDEP
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