Comments on: Tomorrow is Your Chance to Say No to the Charleston County Incinerator http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2008/06/23/tomorrow-is-your-chance-to-say-no-to-the-charleston-county-incinerator/ Living Green. Here. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:40:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: 6 Amazing Reader Comments :: A Joshua Mueller Appreciation Post at Go Green Charleston || Local Environmental News, Information, and Advocacy http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2008/06/23/tomorrow-is-your-chance-to-say-no-to-the-charleston-county-incinerator/comment-page-1/#comment-83491 6 Amazing Reader Comments :: A Joshua Mueller Appreciation Post at Go Green Charleston || Local Environmental News, Information, and Advocacy Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:20:39 +0000 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/?p=371#comment-83491 [...] what went down at the Charleston County Incinerator meeting [...] [...] what went down at the Charleston County Incinerator meeting [...]

]]> By: Joshua Mueller http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2008/06/23/tomorrow-is-your-chance-to-say-no-to-the-charleston-county-incinerator/comment-page-1/#comment-82036 Joshua Mueller Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:01:28 +0000 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/?p=371#comment-82036 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. 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.

]]> By: Bubba Fetner http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2008/06/23/tomorrow-is-your-chance-to-say-no-to-the-charleston-county-incinerator/comment-page-1/#comment-82033 Bubba Fetner Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:03:53 +0000 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/?p=371#comment-82033 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. 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.

]]> By: Joshua Mueller http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2008/06/23/tomorrow-is-your-chance-to-say-no-to-the-charleston-county-incinerator/comment-page-1/#comment-80633 Joshua Mueller Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:07:56 +0000 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/?p=371#comment-80633 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 $$$ for the recycling center, and for the city of Charleston. Unless of course they sell the center to a developer to build a golf course, that is... I've heard rumors... Good question about the job losses. I don’t know the answer to that. What I do know is that if you look at the revenue streams for the 3 main waste disposal methods for the city, the recycling center is the only one with a positive income. More volume recycled would mean more $$$ 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…

]]> By: cdon http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2008/06/23/tomorrow-is-your-chance-to-say-no-to-the-charleston-county-incinerator/comment-page-1/#comment-80577 cdon Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:51:24 +0000 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/?p=371#comment-80577 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 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

]]> By: Joshua Mueller http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2008/06/23/tomorrow-is-your-chance-to-say-no-to-the-charleston-county-incinerator/comment-page-1/#comment-80317 Joshua Mueller Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:41:21 +0000 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/?p=371#comment-80317 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 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

]]> By: Joshua Mueller http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2008/06/23/tomorrow-is-your-chance-to-say-no-to-the-charleston-county-incinerator/comment-page-1/#comment-79900 Joshua Mueller Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:16:31 +0000 http://www.gogreencharleston.org/?p=371#comment-79900 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! 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!

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