Broward residents, along with the mayors of Miramar and Doral, showed up at county hall to ensure their voices were heard.

Two months after her plan to build a new garbage incinerator came under attack by President Donald Trump’s son, Miami-Dade’s mayor is dropping her longtime fight for a new trash-burning facility and instead wants the county to explore building a new landfill somewhere else in Florida.

After nearly two years of Miami Dade County considering locations for its new billion-dollar incinerator, the county is going back to the drawing board.

Miami-Dade County has abandoned plans for a $1.5 billion waste-to-energy incinerator following public backlash. The project, proposed after a fire destroyed the county’s aging incinerator, aimed to generate electricity while reducing pollution. However, environmentalists and residents opposed it, citing past pollution and foul odors.

Miami-Dade County commissioners were holding a special meeting Tuesday as they sought solutions in an ongoing saga over solid waste.

After nearly two years of Miami-Dade County considering locations for its new billion-dollar incinerator, the county is going back to square one.

MIAMI - The Miami-Dade commission will discuss the future of solid waste management during a meeting on Tuesday. It comes after Mayor Daniella Levine Cava issued a memo recommending that plans to build a new incinerator in the county be scrapped in favor of continuing long-hauling waste.