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Waste watch

Congressional candidate Eric Massa speaks out: private garbage companies are hijacking our public resources

UK exceeds target to recycle and recover energy from 67% of its packaging waste

Plastic can't be recycled; where does it go?

Six months after the U.S. Supreme Court speaks, even industry agrees: local flow control legislation is legal

Industrial wind power watch

NYSERDA sponsors workshops on locally-owned "community wind" energy projects

CCCC's Backgrounder & links

NYS Legislature to consider 18 month moratorium on industrial wind plants until a Task Force reports on problems

Gear problems shut down windmills in Lackawanna

50 windmills on the Tug Hill Plateau in northern New York killed 123 birds and 326 bats in five months last year






Over 90% of New York's waste disposal capacity is located in central and western NY  --maps and links to the landfills

Nuclear waste sites are concentrated in western NY --West Valley, Tonawanda, Lake Ontario Ordnance Works

New York's only hazardous waste landfill is located in western NY --Chemical Waste Management

Health effects of living near a landfill --leaks, fires, stability, landfill gas

New York State recycles 40% of its waste on average, but that could be 85% --zero waste policies, recycling initiatives, alternatives to toxic products

In New York, municipal governments hosting private waste facilities can be liable for future cleanup costs --municipal liability, local landfill ban laws, local flow control laws
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