Re: disclaimer

[Ferdinand.Engelbeen@ping.be (Ferdinand Engelbeen)]

It is prof. James Quigley's good right not to react on our mail of a few
days ago to confirm that Greenpeace manipulates data.

But we ask him now, as a co-author, to confirm that in the CBNS report
incineration of PVC production waste is estimated to give 0.02% of the
dioxin emissions in the US and Canada as a source (Table I, page 6). Even
if this is a tenfold underestimated and the other sources are not, it is
still only 0.2%.

Besides that, we would like to know the theoretical background and the
large scale tests, wich proof that industrial chlorine/PVC in incineration
is THE source of chlorine wich is responsable for all dioxin generation.

To this regard two questions can be put forward, for wich we expect a
scientific answer from prof. Quigley:

- How do you explain that testruns at more than a hundred municipal
incinerators in many countries in average do not show a relationship
between chlorine/PVC at the input or HCl in the gas phase and the amount of
dioxins formed or emitted? That while the circumstances like temperature,
time, particulates, heavy metals, each show a very good correlation.
Even when all PVC was omitted or augmented to five times the 'normal'
content, there were no changes in dioxin 'fingerprint' or amount found.
Neither that was the case at hospital waste and hazardous waste
incinerators and cement killns.

- If we look at the 'contaminated by pollution' theory for wood burning, we
can not ignore the fact that wood contains a million times more natural
chlorine than necessary to form all generated dioxins, so it is for all
combustion of natural materials.
But how do you explain that coal combustion in the UK is good for 19% of
all dioxin emissions (besides coke production and iron sintering), while it
is impossible that it is contaminated to such an extend by any industry?
Source: Department of the Environment, UK, 1989.

Ferdinand Engelbeen
Chairman Chlorophiles

Ferdinand.Engelbeen@ping.be

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>grouped by state or province. The primary sources of dioxin are from burning
>chlorinated plastic (such as PVC) and other chlorine-containing
>petrochemical materials. Even burning wood in a home fireplace releases
>dioxin into the air, not because dioxin is a natural component of wood, but
>because dioxin produced by industrial sources has now become widespread in
>the environment, including trees.
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