The smokestack of the Delaware Valley Resource Recovery Facility looms over a residential street in Chester.
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WHYY’s ‘The Why’: Philly’s trash is Chester’s air pollution
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Emma Lee / WHYY
The smokestack of the Delaware Valley Resource Recovery Facility looms over a residential street in Chester.
A chunk of Philadelphia’s trash is burned in Chester — which pollutes Chester’s air.
On this episode of WHYY’s “The Why,” reporter Catalina Jaramillo talks about why Philly’s trash ends up in Chester, and why such incinerators are often in communities of color.
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