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Hennepin County needs to dramatically change how it deals with solid waste if leaders are going to close a controversial trash incinerator and not send more garbage to landfills. That was the takeaway from a 39-page briefing on "reinventing the county's solid waste system" presented Thursday in response to a unanimous resolution from the County Board in October asking what it would take to .
Mounting activism and recent action by the State Legislature is putting renewed pressure on Hennepin County to close an incinerator that burns 1,100 tons of trash every day in downtown Minneapolis.