[Pharmwaste] "Europe Finds Clean Energy in Trash, but U.S. Lags"
Sue Dayton
sdayton at swcp.com
Tue Apr 13 13:02:47 EDT 2010
Hi Folks:
"Dozens of filters catch pollutants, from mercury to dioxin, that would have
emerged from its smokestack only a decade ago?"
Waste to energy? Sounds like a wonderful idea, but not without compromises.
For one, our air.
Our organization has a number of studies available on WTE. For starters see:
http://www.bredl.org/pdf2/StopIncinerationBlowingSmoke.pdf
http://www.greenaction.org/incinerators/documents/IncineratorsInDisguiseRepo
rtJune2006.pdf
http://preventcancernow.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/pcn-incin51.pdf
PowerPoint: Burning Issues in Waste Disposal:
http://www.greenaction.org/incinerators/documents/GreenactionGAIAIncinerator
sInDisguise0209.pdf
Best -
Sue Dayton
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
North Carolina Healthy Communities Program
PO BOX 44
Saxapahaw, NC 27340
(336) 525-2003
sdayton at swcp.com
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of DeBiasi,
Deborah (DEQ)
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:31 AM
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Subject: [Pharmwaste] "Europe Finds Clean Energy in Trash, but U.S. Lags"
Good article on the Waste-to-Energy Incinerators, like Covanta, that
were being discussed here last week.
"Europe Finds Clean Energy in Trash, but U.S. Lags"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/science/earth/13trash.html?th&emc=th
Deborah L. DeBiasi
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