Source: WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 3/25/17


Shipping containers full of coal ash from China, Poland and India have come into the United States through the Port of Virginia as foreign companies find a market for the same industrial waste that America’s utilities are struggling to dispose of.
Critics call it a missed opportunity. Coal ash is treasure as well as trash, useful for projects from roads to concrete to wallboard. They want Virginia to mandate more recycling of the ash that’s already here, threatening to contaminate water sources or create an environmental disaster.

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