Change means dealing with our own trash
To the Editor,
As someone who has lived in Chester since 1976, and for 10 of those years at the “elbow” of Interstate 95 and Highland Avenue, I can attest to the pollution from I-95 (see Rich Ailes’ April 2 and April 9 letters to the editor). I am also all too familiar with something most folks outside of Chester do not know about the city: We actually have two incinerators: the Covanta incinerator, near the river, and the county incinerator, near Toby Farms.
I am troubled by an attitude I see too often: that somehow, because there is already some pollution in Chester, it can have even more! What is a little more pollution, after all? In response, I would ask: Where does YOUR trash go, and what will you do to help decrease the pollution it causes?
I trust that more of us will come to better understand how systems tend to be undergirded by oppressive actions and thinking, and how regular citizens like us can help us all move away from them, instead making the systems that we live in more mindfully designed. I look forward to the day when each of us is ready to deal with our own trash, and for the long-term changes we need to make in our habits and systems.
Joan Broadfield
Chester