Dear Friends--Regardless of the claims of the waste to energy
proponents, this is a really bad idea! Please see the
following. Thanks. Tom
From: Lynne Pledger <[email protected]>
To: Stop Incinerators <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:39:46 -0400
Subject: [GreenYes] response to Times article on Wte
Subject: What was that again, Mr. Secretary?
To the Editor:
How old was the quote on incineration from Ian Bowles,
Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs?
[Europe finds clean energy in trash... 4/12/10]
Just recently the Secretary told us that Massachusetts has eschewed
burning and burying for a more enlightened "aggressive agenda of
recycling and waste reduction." In a release on December 11, 2009,
saying that Massachusetts would not be building more incinerators,
Bowles said, "Focusing on incineration and landfills is the wrong
end of the waste equation."
Hopefully Massachusetts will be spared the glut of incinerators
that has led some European countries to accept hazardous waste from
other parts of the globe to keep their burners belching smoke.
(Downtime reduces profits and increases emissions.) Another problem
is finding ever more places to pile the resulting mountains of toxic ash.
Not in Massachusetts, thank you.
Lynne Pledger
Trash burning is hazardous, alternatives offered
Weekly News Article Published: April 13, 2010 by the
<http://dnr.wi.gov/news/contact.asp?regionscope=Central>Central Office
MADISON - Anyone taking a match to a debris pile this spring may want
to think twice. If the pile contains household trash, the fire will
be adding dangerous pollutants to the air. Burning debris is also the
number one cause of forest fires in Wisconsin, causing approximately
40 percent of forest fires each year.
A study by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency found that the
amount of cancer causing dioxin and furan emissions from 15
households burning trash each day is the same as those emissions from
a 200 ton per day municipal waste incinerator with high efficiency
emission control technology.
[rest of story at
<http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=1394>http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=1394]
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