Janey Moves To Withdraw Walsh-Era Waterfront Development Plan wgbh.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wgbh.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Itâs time for the nationâs oldest trash incinerator, in Saugus, to go
Itâs 2021. Why is there a trash incinerator and toxic ash dump on a protected salt marsh?
By Yvonne Abraham Globe Columnist,Updated January 23, 2021, 2:21 p.m.
Email to a Friend
A worker looked out the window as smoke poured out of Saugus s Wheelabrator trash incinerator in August 2020.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
REVERE â On the Salem Turnpike in Saugus, right on the fragile Rumney Marsh Reservation, sits a monument to failure.
The Wheelabrator trash incinerator and landfill â the oldest incinerator in the country â should not exist. Plants like it have been shut down all over the country. Massachusetts has forbidden any like it to be built again.