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When you burn trash, it doesn’t disappear. It turns into toxic ash — and that ash still goes to an industrial landfill located a short walk from the Mississippi river in Rosemount. (1/3) #FreedomToBreathe #Minneapolis #mpls #environmentaljustice #mnleg

Tuesday. Government Plaza. Noon. The County has a plan to close the trash burner making our neighbors sick — and refuses to act. Community members are putting their bodies on the line. Show up with them: bit.ly/4dgnXiQ #FreedomToBreathe #mpls

...the furnace — not to invest in real zero-waste infrastructure. You can't recycle your way to zero waste with a trash burner in the way. Close the HERC. Sign the petition: bit.ly/dontburntrash #FreedomToBreathe #CloseHERC #GlobalRecyclingDay

Today is #GlobalRecyclingDay. Every day, Hen. Co. burns 365,000 tons of trash — including materials that could be recycled. Trash burners don't complement recycling. They cannibalize it. As long as the HERC exists, the county has a financial incentive to keep feeding... #mnleg

(3/3) No community vote. No community voice. Just a county and a captured EPA deciding what North Minneapolis gets to breathe. No kings. No trash burners. All power to the people! See you on 3/28! #FreedomToBreathe #CloseHERC #NoKings #mpls

(2/3) The Biden EPA proposed updated standards in 2024 that the county-run trash burner would fail to meet. The Trump EPA ignored them. Hen. Co. and the MPCA are taking full advantage — hiding behind outdated permit limits to keep this burner running in a Black neighborhood...

🧵We're the Zero Burn Coalition, fighting to close the county-run trash burner poisoning lungs in North Minneapolis. We're proud to cosponsor the No Kings March on March 28th — because what's happening to the EPA is happening to our community...#FreedomToBreathe #NoKings #mpls

The county is lucky Biden's EPA rules didn't go into effect — the HERC trash burner would have been out of compliance on hydrochloric acid and nitrogen dioxide. Happy #StPatricksDay to everyone not delaying the shutdown of this toxic burner. #FreedomToBreathe #mnleg

(3/3) — and it is preventable. Hennepin County has the authority to initiate HERC's closure now. Every day of delay is a choice to extend exposure. Delay = Harm. The time is now. Sign the petition: bit.ly/dontburntrash #FreedomToBreathe #mpls @followers #mnleg

— where children are sent to the ER for asthma at the highest rate in MN. Surrounding wealthier areas send trash here and bear none of the burden. This is not an accident. It is a policy choice. The harm is concentrated in Black, Brown, and working-class communities....(2/3)

🧵Everyone deserves the freedom to breathe clean air — no matter what they look like or where they live. Hunter Cantrell is a former #mnleg Rep, cancer survivor, and 3rd-year med student. His clinic sits just miles from HERC, the #mpls trash burner, in ZIP code 55411...(1/3)

When it closes, we use the money wasted on it to build something better. Composting, green jobs, reuse hubs — a regenerative future that invests in and takes direction from the neighborhoods that have borne this burden the longest. Now is the time. Close HERC. #FreedomToBreathe

No community should be treated as a sacrifice zone. The people living in the shadow of this facility are paying for it with their health. The County Board has the authority to close HERC. They can call a vote today. Join the fight: bit.ly/dontburntrash

Everyone in Minneapolis deserves the #FreedomToBreathe fresh air. But to make the same amount of energy as a coal plant, the Minneapolis trash burner releases 28x as much dioxin, 6-14x as much mercury, and nearly six times as much lead.

The Board has the authority to close HERC right now. No new legislation required. Just a vote. The harm is preventable. The authority exists. The time is now. Join us: bit.ly/endtrashburning #FreedomToBreathe #environment

....into a Black and working-class neighborhood where children go to the ER for asthma at the highest rate in the state. Every person deserves clean air regardless of their zip code or income. No community should be treated as a sacrifice zone....

🧵 Hennepin Co. is burning millions of taxpayer dollars to keep a trash incinerator running that was supposed to close in 2009. In addition to losing millions each year, as of '24 it was strapped with $37m in debt — all while releasing lead, mercury, and dioxins...(1/3) #mnleg

(3/3) Closing HERC is about transitioning to a real zero-waste future: reducing waste, expanding composting, increasing recycling, and ending the concentration of harm in BIPOC communities. We can move beyond landfills and incinerators. Join the fight: bit.ly/endtrashburning

(2/3) Meanwhile, the air pollution from incineration is concentrated in BIPOC and working-class communities that have already carried the burden for decades. Incineration doesn’t eliminate landfills. It adds toxic air pollution on top of them.

When you burn trash, it doesn’t disappear. It turns into toxic ash — and that ash still goes to an industrial landfill located a short walk from the Mississippi river in Rosemount. (1/3) #FreedomToBreathe #Minneapolis #mpls #environmentaljustice #mnleg

(3/3) Delay is not neutral. Every day HERC operates, exposure continues. The County has the authority to act. The time is now! #FreedomToBreathe

(2/3) Rev. @drcrussell reminded us that for decades, trash has been burned in the heart of predominantly BIPOC and working-class communities — not by accident, but as the result of policy decisions about whose neighborhoods carry the burden

Grateful to Rev. Alfred Babington-Johnson for inviting the Zero Burn Coalition to join this important gathering of faith leaders at Shiloh Temple International Ministries. where we shared info about the ongoing harm caused by Henn. Co's garbage burner in North #mpls. 🧵 (1/3)...