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Residents and environmental groups urge pause on ash recycling as board adopts consent including item 5F
Summary
During the public-comment period, speakers from the Sierra Club and independent consultants urged the Solid Waste Authority board to remove and further study agenda item 5F — an aggregate-recovery proposal tied to incinerator ash — citing health, groundwater and lifecycle concerns. The board adopted the consent agenda, including item 5F, 6-0.
The Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority adopted its consent agenda, including agenda item 5F concerning an aggregate-recovery project tied to incinerator ash, by a 6-0 vote. During matters by the public, three speakers urged the board to pause the item and seek more study and public disclosure before approving any reuse of ash.
Linda Smith, a member of the Sierra Club Loxahatchee Group, told the board that she was “a little vague on some of the details” of item 5F and asked whether the $25,000–$30,000 in expected revenue was for testing or for reuse. Smith added, “please do not consider using it as a road bed,” and urged the board to clarify how…
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