Located in an affluent, majority white county, the city of Chester, Pennsylvania is mostly black and home to an unprecedented cluster of industrial polluting facilities. Trash & Burn follows one woman's decades long fight to stop the nation's largest trash incinerator from polluting her small town.

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UPCOMING SCREENINGS

• Swarthmore College on April 12, 2024 at 6:00 PM

  • 500 College Ave​, Swarthmore, PA 19081

  • Film Screening and Panel Discussion

  • Continuing Education credits approved for health care providers

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• Villanova University in Driscoll Hall on April 24, 2024 at 5:30 PM

  • 800 E. Lancaster Ave, Villanova, PA 19085​​

  • Film Screening and Panel Discussion

  • Continuing Education credits approved for health care providers

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• Cherry St. Pier on April 19, 2024, at 7:00 PM

  • 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106

  • Film Screening and Panel Discussion

  • Happy Hour and DJ at 5:30 PM

  • This event is a double feature and will also include Midnight Oil

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• Villanova University in Driscoll Hall on June 10, 2024 at 5:00 PM ***PRIVATE EVENT***

  • 800 E. Lancaster Ave, Villanova, PA 19085​​

  • Film Screening and Panel Discussion will take place at the end of the day

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• University of California, Berkley on May 23-24, 2024, (WeRISE Summit & Faculty Workshop)

  • Bilal will give a 15-minute presentation on environmental justice, including brief clips from his films "Midnight Oil" and "Trash & Burn"

  • Also, Bilal will attend the WeRISE Faculty Workshop on May 23, 2024, from 8 AM to 4 PM. The workshop, occurring a day before the WeRISE Summit, focuses on "Progressive Strides to Racial Healing" and aims to foster exchanges between Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty and the community. It will also explore integrating community-led initiatives into the curriculum to prepare for the new Environmental Engineering program launching in 2026.