Environmental Groups Applaud Cancellation of Controversial Erie, Pennsylvania, Plastic Waste Facility that Would Grind Waste Plastic Into Smaller Plastic Pieces to Be Burned at Steel Mills in Indiana
Residents of Erie, Pennsylvania; Gary, Indiana; and environmental organizations are applauding the April 3 announcement from International Recycling Group (IRG) that it is canceling its proposed plastic waste facility. The facility would have operated in Erie, Pennsylvania, collecting plastic waste from a 750-mile radius and turning it into smaller pieces of plastic that would be burned in steel mills. With Erie and Gary already overburdened by pollution, residents of both cities were concerned about the damaging impacts of this false solution to plastic waste.
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