BURNT History
BURNT has won a number of environmental victories since its founding in 1988, including:
- Closure of the Nashville incinerator (a.k.a. the Thermal Transfer Plant, or just Thermal)
- Beat back a $200 Million expansion of Thermal
- Defeated a proposed Madison incinerator
- Got the Metro School System and the Juvenile Justice Hall to adopt less toxic pest control called "Integrated Pest Management" (IPM)
- A successful wet/dry demonstration project at Granbery Elementary School that continues to this day (including the acquisition of a state-of-the-art in-vessel composter)
- The Metro Health Board to require a clean up of the rendering plant
- Closed the Laidlaw-Osco hazardous waste plant (a notorious polluter in Cockrill Bend)
- Exposed the Health Department's haphazard pesticide spraying practices in 2003 & 2004. This resulted in an end to the four quadrant system that had Metro spraying pesticides four nights a week.
- Stood up for citizens who had been sprayed by the spray trucks while in plain view of the drivers and fought for two years for better notification. This resulted in the Health Department implementing the Reverse 911 notification for mosquito spraying and convoys which warn people in Nashville neighborhoods that the trucks are coming.
We hope to work together with you to further promote people's health and our community's environment in the areas pesticide reduction, solid waste recycling/composting, indoor air quality, clean water and clean air.
