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The Town of Saugus provides residents with curbside pick-up of trash and recycling of paper, cardboard, containers including glass bottles/jars, milk/juice cartons, and plastics with symbols numbered 1 through 7.
Mar 1, 2023 · A waste company in Saugus is pushing to expand its landfill, despite regulations that forbid enlargement because it sits in a protected wetland.
- Landfills Aren’T Safe – and This One Is No Exception
- Do We Even Need This Landfill?
- How Did We Get Here?
- How Can We Stop Wheelabrator from Expanding?
This landfill is the only municipal solid waste or ash landfill in the Commonwealth accepting waste into cells that are unlined (none of the 140-acre landfill is lined). Liners are supposed to prevent landfill pollution from leaking into the environment. But the Saugus landfill rests in water in the middle of Rumney Marsh, so there is nothing to ke...
The landfill’s impact on the local environment alone should be enough for the Commonwealth to deny Wheelabrator’s proposal to expand. But the State also seems intent on ignoring the fact that, if our waste was handled properly, the landfill wouldn’t need to expand at all. Wheelabrator currently buries 100,000 tons of ash each year, but about 80 per...
When it first opened in the 1950s, the landfill accepted only municipal solid waste. The Wheelabrator Saugus Waste Incinerator (also known as “RESCO”) was built in 1974, and since then it has dumped millions of tons of ash on the landfill. In 1989, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) declared Rumney Marsh (including t...
MassDEP’s decision to approve Wheelabrator’s permit to expand is only provisional. We still have a chance to tell MassDEP that this polluting landfill should not be allowed to expand any further. Your voice matters in this fight, so please, take action today. Here’s how you can help: 1. Submit comments to MassDEP prior to close of business (5 PM) o...
Jan 25, 2024 · Environmentalists view 2024 as a critical last push to finally achieve the closure of the WIN Waste Innovations Saugus waste-to-energy ash landfill. As sea levels rise, advocates say industrial...
May 15, 2024 · On May 13, 2024, Saugus Town Meeting voted unanimously in favor of Article 25, to establish a closure committee for the WIN Waste Saugus ash landfill.
Wheelabrator Saugus Inc. Ash Landfill, Saugus MassDEP has approved the company's proposals to stage ash residue on the landfill before transport off-site, and to place some additional fill in two valleys on the landfill.
Jan 25, 2018 · But the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection gave it a critical reprieve, allowing it to stay open until its landfill reached capacity. Today, the Saugus incinerator’s...
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