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An employee was injured after a garbage truck explosion in New Haven Friday, city officials said.
Officials said there was a garbage truck fire at All American Waste on Wheeler St. There was a compressed natural gas tank that caused an explosion, as the truck had a fully-involved mid-truck fire. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Fire officials controlled the fire and prevented it from spreading to the row of trucks at the facility.
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New Haven officials: One hospitalized after explosion, fire on garbage truck
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NEW HAVEN An explosion caused a fire on a garbage truck in New Haven on Friday, sending one person to the hospital for evaluation.
Emergency Management Director Rick Fontana said in a statement relayed by city director of communications Kyle Buda that there was a garbage truck fire at All American Waste, located at 19 Wheeler St., on Friday.
Fontana said a compressed natural gas tank caused an explosion, causing a fire in the middle of the truck.
New Haven firefighters were able to keep the fire contained to the truck, Fontana said.
Food waste is a fact of life. Also a fact is that it’s smelly, wet and heavy. It makes a mess out of the rest of the trash and is generally nasty.
Getting food waste out of the trash may also provide the key to how Connecticut repairs the dated, expensive, fragmented and environmentally fraught waste systems in the state. But the question is whether it makes more sense to get the food out of the waste stream first or whether other parts of the system get fixed first so the food part follows.
It’s a chicken-egg problem, and which comes first isn’t clear. What is clear, officials say, is that food waste cannot be ignored any longer.
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Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection officials have already tentatively approved a permit for a waste processing plant on the Quinnipiac River to start accepting all household waste. New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker and environmental advocates told officials at a Zoom meeting on Tuesday that the state should clean up the area, instead.
All American Waste already has a permit to accept some municipal waste and recycling. Environmentalists said the area does not need any more household waste because it already handles more waste than much of the state.
“The community doesn’t want it, the city doesn’t want it, and it’s a horrible idea environmentally. This is right on the Quinnipiac River,” Roger Reynolds, senior legal counsel for the environmental organization Save the Sound, told Hearts Connecticut Media. “This [waste] really should be composted and recycled instead of dumped on the most environmentally overburdened communities
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