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ZWMC team met with Montgomery County Council members in Nov-Dec'2024
ZWMC team met with Montgomery County Council members in Nov-Dec'2024
ZWMC met with with Montgomery County Council members in Nov-Dec'2024 to discuss the status of County's plans to close the incinerator or extend the contract to incinerate trash.
ZWMC team shared the information about the health and environmental impacts of waste incineration:
Transportation emissions by truck or rail turned out to be insignificant compared to the emissions from landfilling or incineration. A long hauling distance to landfills does not create enough emissions to justify incinerating closer to where trash is produced. Transporting our waste by truck, even to a distant landfill hundreds of miles away, appears to be the cleanest, most cost-effective and most secure long-term solution. (See "Beyond Incineration" report)
As the County Executive and DEP announced on November 25th 2024 the plan to write an emergency extension of the contract to continue with waste incineration beyond the current contract end date of April 2026, Zero Waste Montgomery County has reached out to all Councilmembers to request a Public Hearing.
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