Right now, the Maryland Department of the Environment is taking public comments on a draft plan for climate action through 2050: Maryland’s Climate Pathway.
They need to hear from you! We know that we need to move beyond trash incineration and build a Zero Waste future to fight climate change. Keeping burning our trash is not an option.
But the draft plan fails to recommend closing Maryland’s trash incinerators or developing meaningful Zero Waste infrastructure that could cut emissions in the waste sector by 84%. It also recommends creating brand-new industries in Maryland for making gas out of agricultural waste and for burning woody biomass, which would pollute more communities on the Eastern Shore and in Western Maryland. In terms of trash, this plan sells our communities short.
Join Clean Water Action and the South Baltimore Community Land Trust for a webinar to learn what’s in the Pathway plan, what’s missing, and how you can speak out! We’ll cover everything you need to know to participate in upcoming listening sessions on the Plan and submit written comments to make sure that trash incineration and similar polluters are not part of our future, and Zero Waste policies are.