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Support the Transportation Climate Alignment Act!
Tell Austin City Council: Assess ALL Energy Options Before Burning More Gas
“Chemical Recycling” is Toxic Greenwashing and Wrong for Maryland!
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Plastics are toxic through their entire lifecycle, and the technologies that the plastic industry misleadingly calls “chemical recycling” or “advanced recycling" are nothing more than incineration in disguise. “Chemical recycling” is a category of different processes used to convert plastic pellets, both virgin plastic and waste plastic, into low-grade fossil fuels or other chemicals by burning, dissolving, or gasifying it.
Nearly no “chemical recycling” facilities are recycling any plastic. Even if they were, they wouldn’t be able to solve the plastic crisis. Pyrolysis, the
Comment on a proposed Medical Waste Incinerator in Frederick
Right now, the Maryland Department of the Environment is taking public comment on a proposed permit to allow Fort Detrick, in Frederick, MD, to construct a new medical waste incinerator. Comments are due Tuesday 1/6 - submit your comments now!
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Fort Detrick is proposing to burn 550 lb/hour of medical waste at this incinerator, to be located in the middle of Area A between Opossumtown Pike and Rosemont Avenue. A medical waste incineration facility operated at Fort Detrick between 1995 and 2018, but was shut down "as the result of an Environmental Protection Agency