Every single day that Covanta continues to burn trash harms our health. But these steps show that Delco and their SWA board is working to consider alternative ways to deal with their trash. And they’re only doing that because of you and the stand you’re taking.
4JOIN CRCQL on April 18th at 9am at Front & Thurlow to support the kick-off of EQAT's Vanguard's Big Climate Problem Walk!
There will be some speakers from CRCQL outside of Covanta and we will accompany EQAT to Kimberly-Clark.
Visit https://buff.ly/3kchwjK for more info!
🔥Zulene Mayfield @Chester_EJ: "I am torn on this contract. Is it the best scenario for Chester residents? Absolutely not." "Just ride down there and sit in your car and you will have a better understanding … This is about the survival of our community.”
https://www.delcotimes.com/2022/04/14/delco-solid-waste-authority-approves-contract-with-covanta/
Chester, Pennsylvania has long been known as one of the nation’s worst cases of environmental racism. This small city just southwest of Philadelphia hosts the nation’s largest trash incinerator, a sewage sludge incinerator, a paper mill burning waste coal and petroleum coke, numerous chemical plants, toxic waste sites, and much more. Immediately surrounding it in the neighboring waterfront boroughs of Eddystone, Trainer, and Marcus Hook are additional major polluters: primarily oil refineries and gas-fired power plants