Tomorrow is Your Chance to Say No to the Charleston County Incinerator
Posted by Chad Norman June 23rd, 2008 .
Trying to reduce trash is a major goal in our house, and probably many of yours as well. So when I find a biodegradable item that is normally trash (think packaging), I feel better about throwing it away when I know it is returning to the earth by decomposing in a landfill. But when trash gets incinerated, this effort is lost.
Earlier this year, the Charleston County Council voted to turn off the Montenay/Veolia incinerator in 2009, but are reconsidering. If you feel passionate about this issue, please attend the Charleston County Council Public Hearing at 6:30 p.m tomorrow night (June 24th) at the Gethsemane Community Center.
If you want to know why we should avoid burning our trash (Dioxins…oh my!), read this great paper from the SC Sierra Club, Lunz Group.
7 Responses to “Tomorrow is Your Chance to Say No to the Charleston County Incinerator”
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The meeting took place. You can view some of the comments at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGiD1uJfzUk&eurl=http://coastalconservationleague.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=183&srcid=195
If you were not able to attend the meeting, you can still submit comments via email. Send your comments (for the next 2 weeks) to the Clerk of Council, Beverly Craven:
bcraven@charlestoncounty.org
TELL YOUR FRIENDS! SEND YOUR COMMENTS! MAKE THEM LISTEN TO US!
UPDATE! (HIT THE EASY BUTTON)
You can let the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League (SCCCL) to do your articulation for you by following the link below:
http://capwiz.com/scccl/issues/alert/?alertid=11543951&type=CU&show_alert=1&external_id=10061.-574609
Josh
What do we do with the garbage then? I’m not arguing for the incinerator, but even with intensive recycling programs there will always be large volumes of garbage and our local landfills can only hold so much. The Sierra Club paper had extensive research on the negative impacts of burning garbage, but it’s solutions section didn’t offer much. It said to recycle more then focused on how closing incinertors and increasing recyclying programs won’t cause job losses?
Interesting waste disposal technology I had never heard of called Plasma arc waste disposal. At least it sounds cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_arc_waste_disposal
Good question about the job losses. I don’t know the answer to that. What I do know is that if you look at the revenue streams for the 3 main waste disposal methods for the city, the recycling center is the only one with a positive income. More volume recycled would mean more $$$ for the recycling center, and for the city of Charleston. Unless of course they sell the center to a developer to build a golf course, that is… I’ve heard rumors…
The county would love to bury the garbage but the problem is getting the land. Land is expensive and nobody wants to live near a landfill. The garbage is being created everyday and it has to be disposed of. so until we can come up with a better way that we can implement immediately. We will have to keep the incinerator since there is no available land. Facts are facts.
Bubba just highlighted yet another symptom of our unsustainable growth. We can’t stop economic growth, as everyone knows. That would be blasphemy to our American ears. Since we can’t responsibly dispose of our waste, we just burn it. Out of sight–out of mind, right? We’ll just push our natural limits blindly until the natural systems that support all this economic growth collapse. And then what will follow? Global poverty? A third world war? Worldwide food and water shortages? What a virus we are…
facts are facts.