Violations include poorly maintained equipment, bungled testing and promised upgrades that were never carried out. A watchdog asks: “Where was the oversight?”

Activists call on city and state leaders to ban the burning of single-use plastic at the BRESCO incinerator. DPW says that’s “not feasible.”

Much of what residents now put out for recycling is so contaminated that it winds up at the incinerator anyway. But it doesn’t have to be that way. [OP-ED]