Miami-Dade mayor backtracks on rebuilding controversial incinerator

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is abandoning a proposed plan to build a new trash incinerator in Miami-Dade County.

In a memo released on Saturday, Levine Cava discussed the challenges involved in waste management and understood the importance of finding a solution after the Resource Recovery Facility in Doral was burned down in February of 2023.

Levine Cava, in her memo, is “recommending that we continue to long haul waste via truck and rail using our contracted capacity, while we continue exploring options to build a landfill outside of Miami-Dade County.”…

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