In other municipalities helped quash
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is considering a request by Elcon Recycling Services LLC of Princeton for a site permit.
The agency has extended the deadline for public comment on the permit until Friday.
Florence, Bordentown city and township and the Delaware Riverkeepers oppose the application because of concerns over potential pollution from waste water, storm water discharge and air emissions.
This is the second industrial waste facility to be proposed along the Pennsylvania riverbanks in 2014. Opposition from Burlington County and local government officials in other municipalities helped quash an incinerator plan in Bristol Township.
Elcon proposes a commercial hazardous waste facility in the Keystone Industrial Port Complex in Falls Township to treat liquid waste from the chemical and pharmaceutical industry in a thermal heating unit. The site is vacant, but once housed the U.S. Steel plant at Fairless Hills.
Bordentown City Mayor Joseph Malone III said he and others are against the plan for one reason — risk to the environment.
"Some people would not care if the world ends if they could make a few bucks out of it," he said of Elcon.