Reworld

We know that our air is impacted.

There are numerous studies that talk about the health impacts of the toxic waste industries on Chester's waterfront, with ReWorld being the number one contributor of that, but not the only one.

Right now, they are in an effort to sort of dismantle or end the Philadelphia's contract with Reworld to embrace an alternative strategy.

Right now, it's like landfills or whatnot.

And this campaign is just the continuation of work that Circle has been doing since, like, 1991 or 1993.

So the work that we're doing and putting this album together I think, you know, some people could say it's a, you know, it is a delightful story and it's meant to be sort of like joyous, but it's also, and this is the thing that we're constantly flirting with and it shows up in black music all the time of like, would they rather hear our blues or would they rather see our suffering in? And I feel like what we're doing in this project is like, say like, we still can find ways to be joyous.

And what you're seeing out there is seeing all the ways that we suffer.

And we need y'all to support the work of ending our suffering by, yes, fighting back to end the contract with Reworld by helping, you know, Circle already has the demands.

Where do you think they're going to go? They're not stupid.

They're not jumping off of sealed containers going into Covanta.

I don't know.

I heard these

15? Yeah, yeah.

The sewer rats were coming out.

They started blaming Covanta back then.

It was called American Refuel back then, but they were blaming them.

So the city is going through a major debate and it's over these trash contracts.

The city currently has a waste disposal contract with companies WM and Reworld and contracts.

And this year they were extended because the city is trying to figure out what is the best thing to do.

Currently, the city is sending a third of its trash to Reworld, which is located in the city of Chester.

That's just outside of the city in Delaware County.

And it's burning its trash.

Now I have my opinions on how that bill falls short as well, but that's kind of like where we got to right now is him putting that bill out there.

OK, so where we are now is that Squilla is planning to propose this bill that would require the city to make a plan to divert 60 percent of its trash away from landfills and away from incinerators.

Philadelphia gives reworld nearly around double the amount of money.

And their last contract, not the current one, but their last contract, they spent nearly double that amount.

So Philadelphia is paying Reworld more money to burnish trash in Chester than Chester actually makes from Reworld overall.

Reworld only gives Chester for burning all of that trash $5 million.

That is exploitation.

So for the people who have tried to argue that, oh, Chester needs Reworld, they don't.

They don't.

It's only giving them $5 million.