10th Ward Alderman John Pope
has introduced a 20-year extension
of Chicago’s landfill moratorium.

This proposal now goes to City Council’s
Environmental Protection Committee, which will decide on a recommendation to the Council.

We must bring a crowd to the meeting of the Environmental Protection Committee.

Tuesday, June 7
10:00 a.m.
In City Council Chambers
2nd floor, City Hall
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NO DUMPS, NO DEALS...AGAIN!

A public meeting on October 26 was attended by more than 200 people, overwhelmingly opposed to landfill expansion and pushing for renewal of Chicago's landfill moratorium. The New Calumet Study Committee, consisting of three individuals, presented a proposal for a deal with Waste Management that would allow expansion for 5 more years with 6 million tons of garbage at the CID landfill, 134th Street near the Calumet River. The attendees vociferously rejected the proposal, with posters proclaiming, "No dumps, no deals...again!" and other slogans.

MORATORIUM RENEWED!

On December 7, 2005, a delegation of 50 Southeast Side residents and supporters presented petitions to Mayor Daley with more than 15,000 signatures urging that Chicago’s landfill moratorium be made permanent.

On December 14, more than fifty people attended a meeting of the Environmental Protection Committee of City Council. Excellent testimony was presented in favor of a permanent moratorium. The Committee unanimously recommended a two-year extension of the moratorium to the City Council. The Council voted unanimously the next day, December 15, to renew the moratorium until February 2007. The moratorium prohibits any new or horizontally expanded landfills in Chicago; it has been in force since 1984.

Citizens for Landfill Alternatives thanks everyone who helped with this historic victory!

ALTERNATIVES TO LANDFILLS

The three Southeast Side Chambers of Commerce -- East Side, Hegewisch and South Chicago -- in partnership with Citizens for Landfill Alternatives hosted an information meeting on November 9 at St. Kevin Church on alternative technologies for garbage disposal. Over 100 people attended to hear experts report on how other cities are dealing with garbage; how new companies are already using technologies that turn garbage into energy and useful products; and recycling and remanufacturing options. Our communities are eager to have the City support our efforts to promote more efficient, economical and environmentally friendly ways to dispose of waste.

"We're off to a running start in becoming a model for the City by being a community that values alternative disposal systems and recycling. Good work, everyone!" said Neil Bosanko, Executive Director, South Chicago Chamber of Commerce.

Citizens for Landfill Alternatives -- a coalition of 15 Southeast Side business, civic and environmental organizations -- in partnership with the three Chambers, is promoting garbage management systems that will combine maximum recycling with technologies that will derive useful products from the remaining waste. We have a variety of technologies to choose from. A committee is forming to both explore and evaluate alternative systems and develop a Request for Proposals for the Southeast Side. To sign up, call (773) 646-0436.