Philly Talks Trash: A Virtual Series on Waste is a monthly on-line program intended to educate and inspire you to participate in the imperative shift towards this new paradigm of zero waste that will replace our throw-away culture and help slow climate change.

The Series is a collaboration between the Philadelphia Neighborhood Networks’ Environment Action Committee and the Plastic Reduction Task Force of Weavers Way Co-op, event hosts. Beginning January 20, and ending July 21, monthly programs will be offered featuring representatives from nonprofits, government programs, and businesses that are working to reduce waste and increase reuse and recycling in the Greater Philadelphia Region. Topics will include single use plastics, food waste and recovery, packaging, recycling, incineration, and litter and dumping. Each program will take place on the third Thursday of the month from 6:30 - 8:00 PM. Zoom links will be provided at the time of registration.

Please Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philly-talks-trash-a-virtual-series-on-wast....

May Program -- Incineration: Why Philly Needs to Stop Sending Our Trash to Chester
May 19th 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Chester, Pennsylvania has long been known as one of the nation's worst cases of environmental racism. This small city just southwest of Philadelphia hosts the nation's largest trash incinerator, a sewage waste facility and sludge incinerator, a paper mill that burns coal waste and petroleum coke, numerous chemical plants, toxic waste sites, and much more. The Covanta incinerator burns up to 3,510 tons of trash per day, only about 1.5% of which is from the City of Chester. The majority of trash comes from Philadelphia and Delaware County. Trash incineration is the most expensive and polluting way to manage waste or to make energy, and it spreads toxic chemicals and ash into the groundwater and air, putting nearby communities at constant risk.

Join us for our May 19th Philly Talks Trash program, Incineration: Why Philly Needs to Stop Sending Our Trash to Chester, with area leaders who are fighting the Covanta trash incinerator on a variety of fronts. Mike Ewall, founder of Energy Justice Network will be our featured speaker, followed by panelists Zulene Mayfield, activist and community leader with Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL) and Eileen Flanagan, author and activist leader with Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT).

Schedule
January 20 Re-thinking Waste: The Story of Plastic and the Circular Economy | Recording

February 17 Food: Waste Reduction and Recovery | Recording

March 17 Philly's Trash and Recycling Crisis | Recording

Philadelphia History of Waste Management -- slides
April 21 Growing Circular Reuse Models in Foodservice and Grocery | Recording

May 19 Incineration: Why Philly Needs to Stop Sending our Trash to Chester

June 16 Managing Food Waste at Home

July 21 Litter and Dumping (Fugitive Waste)