Massive incinerator planned in China; and NEWARK, NJ

[Joseph R Parrish Jr <JoeParrish@compuserve.com>]

Not to be outdone, the Newark, NJ, municipal waste incinerator 
has been given clearance to expand its hours to burn 3,000 tpd 
in order to handle the atrocious amount NY City generates.  It is 
7 miles upwind of the Big Apple, which has banned incineration 
within its city limits.  Previously it burned 1,500 tpd.  
China shares with NY the only two manmade objects clearly visible 
to the astronauts, the Great Wall and the NY City Fresh Kills garbage 
dump now being closed on Staten Island.  Unfortunately half the 
Fresh Kills loads are now coming to Newark's incinerator and half to 
Elizabeth, NJ, to its waste transfer station in a poor minority 
neighborhood, on the way to landfills in PA and VA.  
Joe
NY/NJ Environmental Watch
Elizabeth, NJ (a 110,000 population "suburb" of Newark and NY City)

Re:
"A 1,000 to 1,500 tpd municipal waste incinerator is in the works for
Shanghai. 

The Shanghai Jiangquiao incinerator will cost around $86 million. The
incinerator will use technology from Spain, and will be completed in 2002. 
It will be sited in the Jiading suburb of Shanghai.


Sincerely,

Vergil

Vergil Bushnell
Multinationals Resource Center

email: vbushnell@essential.org
phone: 202.387.8030
address: PO Box 19405, Washington DC 20036"