"So our secret blueprints are getting burned up in a municipal incinerator?"
Says the son to his newly arrived mother, more or less in desperation, "You can see the municipal incinerator from here."
The county's four municipal incinerators have been closed as well, along with the two landfills that once took construction debris.
Several large municipal incinerators were used into the 1990's.
This trash is collected by the city and burned at a municipal incinerator.
The last municipal incinerator closed in the early 1990's.
Senate Republicans are advocating that the state pick up half the cost for the construction of new municipal incinerators.
In the 1990's federal regulation reduced emissions from other sources, like municipal incinerators.
There are 137 municipal energy-recovery incinerators in the country, with dozens more being planned.
Their main concern was the company's plan to store hazardous ash from municipal incinerators in empty chambers.