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.
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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.