Calling incinerators “waste combustors” doesn’t change the fact that they are a major health hazard to local communities, emitting toxic air pollutants like particulate matter and heavy metals which are linked to a variety of health problems including asthma, heart disease, and high blood pressure.
Janet S Domenitz
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Lots left on the to-do list for reducing waste
THIS YEAR, as we celebrate the 53rd Earth Day, we should use the occasion to reckon with our growing waste crisis. A few years after the first Earth Day, held […]
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Don’t buy into the buy, buy, buy propaganda machine
IT SEEMS LIKE every time you turn on the radio, tune into the news, pick up the paper, anywhere you look or listen these days, you hear: “supply chain,” “panic […]
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Here are some words that bug me
EVEN IF YOU are not a student of Shakespeare, you’ve probably heard this one: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as […]
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No, no, no to buy, buy, buy
FOR MOST OF OUR almost 50-year history, MASSPIRG has pushed for increased recycling, for stopping polluting landfills and incinerators, and for getting producers to be responsible for their products. Over […]