Based in Sydney, Australia, Foundry is a blog by Rebecca Thao. Her posts explore modern architecture through photos and quotes by influential architects, engineers, and artists.

Technology can help with toxic smoke

Technology can help with toxic smoke

Rich Conti
To The Editor

To the Editor,

If the Covanta incinerator is shut down, the immediate effect would be to increase solid waste, not decrease it. There would be more trucks rumbling through Chester and speeding up and down the Blue Route, going to and from the landfills upstate. Not a good thing.

A recent article (March 5) and letter to the editor (March 12) in the Swarthmorean mention that the real problem with the incinerator is that it spews out toxic smoke. It seems to me that, if the problem is dirty air, then what you need to do is clean up the smokestack to remove the pollutants that are coming out. Technology supposedly exists to accomplish this. I assume this solution has been discussed, but I’ve seen no mention of it. Instead, all I’ve seen is the simplistic argument that we need to aim for “zero waste.” Good luck with that.

Rich Conti
Rutledge

PA’s vaccine roll-out mess

PA’s vaccine roll-out mess
Too little, too late

Too little, too late