Tucson Environmental Services’ Dangerous Preoccupation with Waste-to-Energy
When Tucson Environmental Services announced in July 2021 that it wanted to create a sustainability campus at the Los Reales Landfill, we were intrigued. But the entire process fell apart quickly when we found out the department wanted to make waste-to-energy the centerpiece of the campus. We learned that the department had been holding discussions […]
Repurposing Plastic Waste into Alternative Building Products is Not Sustainable
The City of Tucson has formed a partnership with Dow Chemical, Reynolds Consumer Products and ByFusion to collect plastic waste at drop-off centers and convert the materials into alternative secondary products, such as park benches and building blocks. Some of the waste may also be sent to cement kilns and pyrolysis facilities to be burned to […]