We have been reading about the Robbins incinerator in the newspapers for years. This plant will be built. Some people continue to hold onto an outdated paradigm that has been defeated time after time during their effort to stop this plant.
Some protestors are those who need to be against something just for the sake of protest. Others found that their fledgling political careers could be artificially inflated by replacing significant social and economic issues with rhetoric full of fear and misrepresentation.
What concerns me the most are the protestors who call themselves “environmentalists” but don’t spend their energies working on real solutions. Using trash to generate electricity is a proven method of trash disposal-especially when our trash doesn’t have to be hauled to a distant landfill.
If we are really concerned about our environment, we won’t put our garbage into landfills-even the newer ones that still have the potential to leach pollutants into our groundwater and emit gases that will pollute our air. The Robbins plant is an excellent alternative.
We, as the generators of the garbage problem, need to go one step further. Residents should call for volume-based disposal fees. With this method of payment, each resident pays only for what he or she has not recycled.
