Bring Urban Recycling to Nashville Today (BURNT)
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Advocacy and Organizing - Neighborhoods
BURNT is very active at the State Legislature, State agencies, and Metro Council to reduce waste going to landfills. Tennessee is heavily oriented to landfills--citizens, business, and local governments spend $1.4 billion to landfill waste. $1.4 billion almost equals the total budget of Metro Nashville and is 6% of the non-federal state budget. Landfills contaminate groundwater, creates methane gas, and hurts the health of citizens. We found our strategy with the desperate need for jobs and business across Tennessee. Recycling and composting create 10 times the jobs as landfilling an equivalent amount of waste. However, breaking the grip of multi-national landfill companies is very difficult because they are entrenched with local and state governments. We approach multiple Agencies and always leave a paper trail of letters and flyers.
Advocacy - Metro Nashville Government
BURNT has a strong legacy of helping the growth of clean business by closing chronic polluters. In Nashville, we enhance the value of commercial real estate by leading the effort to stop the proposed $100 million garbage separator on Rolling Mill Hill and the $200 million expansion of the downtown incinerator. We worked for two years in front of the Metro Health Board to close the Rendering Plant which for years blanketed downtown, Metro Center, and Germantown with heavy meat packing odors. We worked with a major business and union to close Laidlaw-OSCO a liquid hazardous waste processor in Cockrill Bend. In each instance, our judgement was proven correct--these businesses were not needed and real estate, such as Metro Center grew . Now, we are continuing this effort by creating jobs and business through recycling and composting solid waste not landfills.
Advocacy - State
Our society is saturated with pesticides, preservatives, medication, and chemicals used in foods. Most people do not know that municipal water treatment plants do not clean agriculture chemicals, prescription medications, or over the counter medications. By all appearances, the many chemicals are leading to increased birth defects, cancer, autism, and infertility. This is our issue of the future. BURNT has an effective history of working on pesticides. In the 1990's we worked with Metro Schools to utilize safeguards for students and teachers when using pesticides. chemicals are n longer applied when students are in the room and every school has data sheets on every chemical. We worked for six years to limit broadcast spraying of pesticides to allegedly control mosquitoes. We are equipped to work on the questions of pervasive multiple chemicals when we get the people and the resources. These chemicals could be the death of us.
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Brotherhood/Sisterhood Community Award 2004
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Community Shares 1995
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Bring Urban Recycling to Nashville Today (BURNT)
Board of directorsas of 01/15/2015
Mr. Bruce Wood
BURNT
Term: 2013 - 2014
Bruce Wood
BURNT
Paul Freeman
Community volunteer
Vernon Dixon
community volunteer