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Baltimore teens take out the Garbage

Baltimore teens take out the Garbage

Youth battle a waste incinerator. It is the threat of dangerous air pollution that has pupils at Curtis Bay’s Benjamin Franklin High School leaving the classroom and showing in the streets of Baltimore. In Curtis Bay, a neglected waterfront neighborhood in the northwestern fringes of Baltimore, an alliance of environmental activists and local groups–such as an energetic and inventive group of high school students–has succeeded in holding off the construction of an great trash incinerator project. The pupils wowed members…

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County scraps plans for waste-to-energy incinerator

County scraps plans for waste-to-energy incinerator

The Board of County Commissioners broke plans Thursday for a regional waste-to-energy incinerator, preferring to haul the county’s waste to a landfill using a short-term contract instead. Commissioners Paul Smith and Billy Shreve cast the dissenting votes to maintain the job on the dining table while the county investigates its options. “It is absolutely no charge to the county to maintain these options open,” Smith stated. “To do away with these choices is mad.” Terminating the undertaking will not cost…

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Burnaby garbage incinerator operator sued over pollution concerns

Burnaby garbage incinerator operator sued over pollution concerns

The Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District is suing Maxxam Analytics International Corp. and Covanta Burnaby Renewable Energy ULC for Supposedly failing to properly Examine fly ash samples in the district’s waste-to-energy facility in Burnaby. Non-hazardous fly ash is accepted and disposed of in the Cache Creek landfill, the claim states. Samples analyzed by Maxxam in the summer and autumn in 2012, however, came back indicating high levels of cadmium that exceeded acceptable levels permitted for disposal in the landfill….

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