{"id":364192,"date":"2017-03-21T02:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grist.org\/?post_type=grist-50-profiles&amp;p=364192"},"modified":"2017-03-21T02:30:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:25","slug":"ahmina-maxey","status":"publish","type":"grist-50-profiles","link":"https:\/\/grist.org\/grist-50\/profile\/ahmina-maxey\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash incinerators spew dangerous toxins. Ahmina Maxey fights for safer waste disposal."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"g50-profile__stats-block profile__stats-block--profile-364192 \">North America Coordinator, GAIA<br \/>\nOakland, California<br \/>\nAge: 31<\/aside>\n<p>Living\u00a0in Detroit, Ahmina Maxey knew her city had a waste problem. At the time, Detroit was the only major city in the country without a curbside recycling program. In those years, Maxey often collected her community&#8217;s recyclable refuse at her house so she could take it to a recycling center. While working at the Zero Waste Detroit coalition, Maxey successfully pushed\u00a0for a city-wide recycling program in 2014. Now she focuses on what happens to garbage after it\u2019s been picked up.<\/p>\n<p>[pullquote share=&#8221;true&#8221; tweet=&#8221;\u201cMy life has essentially been me chasing trash. I always have recycling in my heart.\u201d&#8221; hashtag=&#8221;Grist50&#8243;]\u201cMy life has essentially been this trajectory of me chasing trash. I always have recycling in my heart.\u201d [\/pullquote]<\/p>\n<p>At the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (or GAIA), Maxey fights for an incinerator-free future. Garbage incinerators spew dangerous levels of chemicals like mercury, arsenic, and lead into the atmosphere &#8212; not to mention CO2 &#8212; often near communities of color. At GAIA, a network of over 800 grassroots groups and individuals, Maxey helps coordinate and connect communities working toward cleaner waste removal. She holds workshops on the dangers of incinerators and proposes zero-waste alternatives &#8212; such as comprehensive recycling programs and reducing consumption in the first place &#8212; in communities fighting active incinerators and incinerator proposals.<\/p>\n<p>The way Maxey sees it, communities can create new, green jobs around better waste-removal practices, and clean up their air in the process. \u201cFor every job you can create from traditionally burning waste, you can create ten more if you choose to recycle it and put it back in the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This organizer fights for safer waste disposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57007830,"featured_media":490289,"menu_order":24,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-364192","grist-50-profiles","type-grist-50-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","grist-50-cities","grist-50-economy","grist-50-13","grist-50-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trash incinerators spew dangerous toxins. 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