The NY Times has followed up Elisabeth Rosenthal's pro-incinerator industry article, with a public debate on their online Opinion Page: Should the U.S. Burn or Bury Its Trash? Why is Europe ahead of the U.S. in embracing clean incinerators that turn garbage into energy? Have your say. Now!

Please sign this open letter to be delivered to climate negotiators in Copenhagen. The new climate treaty must support efforts to increase recycling through the informal sector, instead of funding incinerators and landfill gas systems.

The incinerator industry is pushing hard to have municipal solid waste incineration added to the renewable standard in the Waxman-Markey climate bill and in the Senate's renewable energy standard.

The negotiations about the potential new bio-waste directive are facing serious difficulties and we really risk not having a bio-waste directive at all. As you know most of biowaste in the EU is either landfilled or incinerated and the since the landfill directive is getting bio-waste out of landfills without saying where it should go, the reality is that it will end up in incinerators instead of being composted. Therefore we need to act to put pressure on the environment ministries to ask the European Commission to prepare a bio-waste directive.