Waste to Energy: Curtis Bay Students Rally Against Proposed Incinerator Plant

January 15, 2015 – Segment 4

We turn our attention to Curtis Bay, where a group of remarkable students form Benjamin Franklin High School are fighting the construction of a proposed incinerator plant. The proposed sight of the plant is within one mile of 2 public elementary and high schools and will burn up to 4,000 tons of Waste per day. Their fight was recently covered in a New York Times article highlighting a disturbing nationwide “waste-to-energy” trend.

With: Greg Sawtwell, Leadership Organizer with United Workers; and Destiny Watford, student leader with Free Your Voice.

Written by Marc Steiner

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