recycling
Praise for Patrick's Solid Waste Policy
Posted December 14th, 2009 by yawu
By Lee Ketelsen, ONE Massachusetts founding member and guest blogger
Governor Patrick's decision to retain the moratorium against new waste incineration is the right decision.
He has committed the state to green
solutions that protect public health, promote energy and resource conservation,
and create green jobs. Recycling creates more jobs and saves more energy by far
than waste incineration.
Instead of destroying discarded resources in
incinerators, we need to make the most of them through reuse, recycling, and
composting. Recycling saves three to five times the energy that can be captured
by incineration, and without the harmful impacts on public health and the
environment.
