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Website Coupons More Info. Pappy Inc Landfills Dumps. If it closes, waste would likely end up in the landfill of the county in which it originated. If that dump closes, there would be literally tons of trash with nowhere to put it. The city is making plans to manage its waste and to divert materials from becoming waste in the first place, but it has a long way to go.

The Office of Sustainability last month set a range of goals, among them doubling the amount the city recycles by At the state level, Gov. Larry Hogan has set much less ambitious waste disposal goals than those of his predecessor. Marylanders generate more trash than Americans on average, according to the Maryland Department of Legislative Services. The state is operating under a executive order signed by Hogan, which repealed a order signed by Gov.

It prohibited permits for new landfills or for expansions of existing landfills. One of them is to reduce the daily waste generated per capita by 10 percent — to 5. Of the 73 incinerators still in operation, just one was built in the s. Most are nearing, or have surpassed, their original life expectancy. The facilities are expensive to build and maintain, and never quite lived up to their energy-generating promise WTE facilities produced just 0.

The pollutants incinerators generate also make it hard for them to comply with present-day air pollution regulations. Then, in , after the state had issued a permit for the giant new incinerator being pushed by Energy Answers International, Gov. But many of those living in communities like Curtis Bay see the impacts of a WTE incinerator as very different from those of a solar farm. The proposed Energy Answers incinerator would have been just the latest source of pollutants that Campbell and her community were breathing in every day.

It lies just two miles south of the second-largest coal exporting port in the country, and four miles northwest of a complex containing two coal power plants that produce more sulfur dioxide than any other source in the state. And the existing incinerator, Wheelabrator, sits just four miles away from the proposed site for the new one. While the high rates are primarily linked to traffic pollution and poor housing conditions, facilities like Wheelabrator Baltimore can exacerbate the problem , according to the Environmental Integrity Project, a nonprofit environmental watchdog organization.

And because Wheelabrator requires a steady supply of trash to operate, activists argue, recycling and composting rates in Baltimore are significantly lower than in other parts of the country. The two were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots environmental activists in honor of their efforts.

They began organizing marches and going door-to-door to raise awareness about the proposed incinerator and the pollutants they feared it would pump into their air. The experience was eye-opening for Campbell, who said that many people she spoke with told her personal stories about developing health problems like asthma or cancer only after moving to Curtis Bay. We knew it would be detrimental to this community that already was plagued with a lot of things.

They were joined in their efforts by Kunze, who had seen her hometown of Frederick, Maryland—less than an hour away—take up its own fight against a proposed WTE incinerator when she was in middle school. Through her work as Maryland Program Manager for Clean Water Action, Kunze has been advocating for policies to remove incentives for incineration in the state. Leah Kelly, a lawyer with the integrity project, also joined the opposition.

Under the Clean Air Act, any new polluting facility must be issued a permit that stipulates it will meet the strongest possible air quality requirements. But by , it appeared as though Energy Answers was doing exactly that. Without a valid permit, the project was effectively dead in the water. Kelly said she had learned the hard way that stopping a proposed incinerator is easier than shutting down an existing one. It is often simpler, she said, to pursue stricter regulations on proposed incinerators because of the permit requirement.

Building plans are often scrapped because of the high cost of fitting plants with the technologies they would need to reduce emissions and comply with regulations. Forcing existing incinerators to retrofit with these technologies, on the other hand is more of a challenge.

As a result, old incinerators often emit particularly high quantities of pollutants. A case in point: Wheelabrator Baltimore. It also produced higher levels of nitrogen oxides, which can aggravate respiratory illnesses and lead to the development of asthma.

Half the population within a three-mile radius of Wheelabrator is below the poverty line, and 66 percent is non-white.