Mayor Parker wants to renew a contract to burn Philadelphia’s trash in Chester. Several City Council members plan to reject it

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Several members of Philadelphia City Council plan to reject a city waste disposal contract with Reworld, a company that burns trash in the city of Chester and several other places in Pennsylvania.

The contract is among three that Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration has proposed awarding to companies to dispose of the city’s curbside trash over the next four to seven years. The other contracts would go to Republic and WM…

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