Houston's solid waste manager responded that the waste was being stored, waiting to see what “happens.” There is a fire risk from the mismanagement of this waste.
The incongruous role of tracers
Designed for absent-minded people or frequent travelers, Air Tags are very useful trackers for finding your keys, your phone, or for following the journey of your suitcase in the hold. However, some ingenious users give them a very special function, like this Texan environmentalist, Brandy Deason.
The climate justice coordinator for Air Alliance Houston, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the public health impacts of air pollution, said she did not trust Houston's new “chemical recycling” program, according to Newsweek.
Wright Waste Management's Strange Dumping Facility
This major Texan metropolis, which claims to be at the forefront of recycling, claimed to list certain types of plastics that are difficult to recycle as “acceptable”. Therefore, to be sure, the American company decided to place no fewer than twelve tracers in its recycled plastic bags.
And the least we can say is that the latter did not make the expected journey. As she specifies to Newsweek, nine out of twelve trackers sent her a signal from “from a waste treatment company”, located approximately 20 miles northwest of downtown Houston.
This company, called Wright Waste Management, started out as a cardboard recycling company. However, in 2022, it applied to change its status to become a national model for advanced plastic recycling. Today, two years later, that application is still at the same stage and the plastic is piling up.
An illegal and unsecured dump?
The investigation, carried out by CBS News and Inside Climate News, showed, through drone footage, piles of untreated plastic waste stacked more than three meters high.
When asked, Mark Wilfalk, Houston's solid waste manager, confirmed that there are more than 250 tons of waste collected at the site. He said they would be better off piled up here than elsewhere, in a “classic discharge“This accumulation could also be used to launch the company, he said.
Meanwhile, safety standards are apparently not being met, as Wright Waste Management reportedly failed three county fire safety inspections three times, according to information obtained during the investigation. Brandy Deason said there is a neighborhood directly behind the landfill.
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