Nov. 17 Hearing on “Stop Trashing Our Air Act”
Monday, November 17 @ 1pm: Hearing on the “Stop Trashing Our Air Act”
Philly City Hall- Room 400 (1400 John F. Kennedy Blvd Philadelphia, PA) or WATCH LIVE
Residents are encouraged to attend this hearing hosted by Philadelphia City Council “Stop Trashing Our Air Act” introduced by Councilmember Jamie Gauthier, which prohibits the City of Philadelphia from contracting with companies that incinerate the city’s solid waste or recyclables. Read Fact Sheet here. Zulene Mayfield will testify and Chester residents will have the option to give public comment.
CRCQL has organized a shuttle for Chester residents from Chester City Hall where you can park your cars. Shuttle will leave Chester City Hall at 11am and return at 3:30pm. Please call or text Erica to confirm if you will be joining shuttle 484-402-7530.
Councilmember Jamie Gauthier said, “I’m introducing the Stop Trashing Our Air Act to end the City of Philadelphia’s role in perpetuating environmental racism through trash incineration. The City’s work to build a safer, cleaner, and greener Philly shouldn’t come at the cost of making our neighbors sicker, dirtier, and less safe. That’s not brotherly love. Everyone deserves to breathe clean, trash-free air.”
37% of Philadelphia’s trash is burned. Nearly 1/3rd of materials incinerated at the Reworld (Covanta) trash incinerator in the City of Chester, America’s largest trash incinerator and the region’s top industrial air polluter, comes from Philadelphia. This incinerator alone burns 3,500 tons of trash and industrial waste daily. Over 2,400 tons of scrap tires that are “recycled” in Philadelphia also get incinerated in Chester annually.
