Covanta wants to import trucks of liquid industrial waste to burn in their trash incinerator in South Camden.  Covanta is already the county's #1 industrial air polluter.  While Covanta claims that this will displace trash and will no result in increases trucks or air emissions, they are only operating at 83% of their capacity and could easily start burning lucrative industrial wastes in addition to the trash they burn, which will increase trucks and air emissions.

Covanta has promised for years to install the missing baghouse system to filter out some of the 25 tons/year of particulate matter they put into the air, and said they were committed to doing this by 2023.  However, they're now claiming that they need community support to burn liquid industrial waste in order to make good on this promise, which cannot be completed, at this point, until at late 2026.  Covanta is currently trying to negotiate with Waterfront South and Morgan Village community leaders, offering an $30-80K a year if they get to burn liquid wastes.  The negotiations would be with a 5-person committee comprised of a Covanta representative plus four people chosen by Councilmember Shaneka Boucher or her designees.  Councilmember Boucher defended Covanta’s microgrid scheme until public pressure finally turned things around in March 2021.

You can read more about Covanta's plan and their proposed Community Benefits Agreement at www.CamdenForCleanAir.org