"State to keep ban on new incinerators" by David Abel, Globe Staff | December 12, 2009
After a yearlong review, environmental officials announced yesterday that they are continuing a 15-year-old moratorium on expanding or building new incinerators.
The review was part of the state’s effort to revise its solid-waste master plan and reduce the 1.5 million tons of trash it exports every year....
Ooooh, who takes our trash?
Sorry, that must be nasty.
Over the years, to the chagrin of environmental groups, waste management companies have lobbied aggressively to lift the ban, arguing that new technology significantly reduces emissions and that it is better to burn the trash and collect the resulting energy than dump the refuse in the state’s rapidly filling landfills or ship it out of state.
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Hey, I'm with you on this one. too; however, you guys need to recognize that the agenda-pushing MSM is not your friend.
Ted Michaels - president of the Energy Recovery Council, a Washington-based trade association for waste-to-energy companies - called the state’s decision “a real disappointment.’’
“We believe waste-to-energy is an asset in Massachusetts and other states,’’ he said. “It’s being embraced by the most environmentally progressive countries in the world, especially in Western Europe. ’’
Then THEY CAN HAVE IT!
I don't want some CHEMICAL-SPEWING INCINERATION PLANT in the state at all, 'kay? Make it any clearer than that?
Officials at Wheelabrator Technologies, which operates incinerators in Saugus, North Andover, and Millbury that provide enough electricity to power more than 150,000 homes a day, declined to comment. Environmental officials had decried the efforts to end the moratorium, arguing that new incinerators, however improved technologically, would contribute more pollution.
Allowing new plants, they said, would encourage more incineration of waste and stifle incentives to recycle.
Where we are already lagging (except out here in Rubesville).
They also pointed out that the state already incinerates about one-quarter of the 12 million tons of waste it produces a year, significantly above the average 7 percent of trash burned nationwide.
Massachusetts, YOU REALLY DO STINK with your HYPOCRITICAL, SLEF-RIGHTEOUS, and SMUG ATTITUDE regarding the rest of the nation!
NO WONDER THIS PLACE STINKS when it warms up (if it ever does)!!!
“Recycling saves three to five times the energy that can be captured by incineration and without the harmful impacts on public health and the environment,’’ said Lee Ketelsen, codirector of Clean Water Action New England.
Speaking of the water: Around New England: You Can't Clean Up Vermont
Not a concern in the Globe's pages anymore.
Who cares if we die of cancer out here in 20 years; it didn't concern the intere$t$ of a certain group of people so....
“Every 10,000 tons of garbage that goes to disposal creates only one job, but the same amount of discarded products can employ dozens of people in recycling and hundreds more in reuse and repair.’’
Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles said the state will focus on expanding recycling efforts by pushing new legislation that would make producers of electronics responsible for their disposal, expand the state’s bottle law to include water and sports drink bottles, and prod communities to increase so-called single-stream recycling, which eliminates the need for households to sort recyclables.
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You can lead a horse to water....
State officials said they expect to issue a new draft of the solid-waste master plan in early 2010.
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Nowhere to be found on the Globe's website.
