TAKE ACTION FOR CLEAN AIR!

Do you know where your trash goes "away?"

If you're here, it's probably because your trash is burned in Montgomery County's #1 air polluter: the Covanta Plymouth trash incinerator next to Ikea and the Turnpike in Plymouth Township.

Your local government may soon be voting on where your trash goes for the next 2-5 years or more.

Please take a quick moment to send a message to your local officials asking that they look at all of their options, and choose not to burn your trash.

TAKE ACTION! Click on your Township or Borough to email your local officials:

• Abington Township
• Ambler Borough
• Cheltenham Township
• Conshohocken Borough - voted Wed, Nov 20th to renew Covanta waste contract for two years
• Hatboro Borough
• Lower Merion Township
• Narberth Borough

• Plymouth Township - voted Mon, Nov 11th to renew Covanta waste contract for two years (Higgins, Gannon, & Manero voted yes)

• Springfield Township
• Upper Dublin Township
  
• Upper Moreland Township

• West Conshohocken Borough - voted on Tues, Nov 12th to renew Covanta waste contract for two years

• Whitemarsh Township - voted Thurs, Nov 14th to pay extra NOT to send waste to Covanta!

Other Montco municipalities are also considering Covanta contracts, but we don't have details on them yet. If you're not in one of these municipalities -- or even if you are! -- please fill out this volunteer form so that we can be in touch with you about how you can best be involved.

Trash incineration is the most expensive and polluting way to manage waste or to make energy -- dirtier than coal burning. By turning 70% of the trash into air pollution and 30% into toxic ash (sent to two landfills in nearby counties), it's actually worse for health and the environment than landfilling it all directly. We'd like your support in moving the county toward zero waste, but the first step is getting this aging and malfunctioning incinerator closed so we can all breathe easier, especially the local residents (and seven nearby schools) where they're regularly experiencing bad burned plastic odors and noise.

For more information about Covanta Plymouth, and the alternatives, see: www.energyjustice.net/pa/montco.