resources

HERC Fact sheets

• Independent evaluation of health, environmental, and energy implications of HERC

• Cumulative Burden Analysis of 55411 and 55407 zip codes

• HERC short fact sheet

  • ​Somali

  • Spanish

• HERC long fact sheet: answers to common questions and misconceptions

HERC TRANSITION PLANS

• The People’s HERC Transition Plan [full version] - This is a detailed transition plan for HERC’s closure prepared by Zero Waste USA. The plan shows where the trash will go and how closure will dramatically reduce waste.

• The People’s HERC Transition Plan [2-page version]

Petitions

• Current Petition - Support the Freedom to Breathe Hunger Strike

• Shut down HERC petition

• Successful previous petitions against 2009 attempt to increase amount of trash burned at HERC 

Landfilling vs Incineration

• Landfills are bad, but incinerators (with ash landfilling) are worse

• Zero Waste International Alliance on incineration as an unacceptable way to manage trash

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Air pollution and health

• Life and breath: How air pollution affects public health in the Twin Cities (from MN Dept of Health and MN Pollution Control Agency)

• Health impacts of incineration: Fact sheet + British Society for Ecological Medicine  + New School Tishman Environment & Design Center report

• Structural Racism & Health Inequities peer-reviewed paper

• Zero Waste Europe study showing European incinerator emissions of dioxin, furan and persistent organic pollutants far beyond limits and concentrated in backyard chicken eggs nearby

Story Maps

• COVID-19, Structural Racism, & Environmental Justice in Minneapolis

Reports

• Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) reports

• press release and U.S. Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators: An Industry in Decline report

• Vestiges of Environmental Racism: Closing California’s Last Two Municipal Waste Incinerators