Dioxin from Hospital Incineration (fwd)

[Mitch Rice <mitch@bluemarble.net>]

Dear listmembers

Here is someone new who needs some help.  As he is not a member of the
list, it would be best if any responses to this plea were carbon copied to
his email address, as well as to the list.

TIA
Mitch Rice
COPA - http://copa.org/

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 00:31:58 -0500
From: Mike Doyle <mdoyle@cu-online.com>
To: mitch@bluemarble.net
Subject: Dioxin from Hospital Incineration

-- Mitch,

Nice to meet you.  I am a member of a neighborhood group, United 
Citizens And Neighbors (UCAN) based in Urbana, Illinois, that is 
concerned about hospital incinerators in our community.  

It is our understanding that hospital incinerators are one of the major 
sources of dioxin emissions in the US because of the plastic that is 
burned.  Further, we've heard that hosptial incinerators are not 
required to control or limit dioxin emissions because of a loophole that 
allows incinerators that burn "on-site" waste to go unregulated.  And 
although the courts mandated thast the EPA introduce regulations to 
close this loophole, proposed regs released in January 1995 were never 
finalized because of  Newt and Company.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.


I'm writing to ask you if you are aware of people or groups that we 
might turn to to find out more about this issue.  We are looking for 
some technical information that lay people can understand as well as 
examples of organizing efforts in other communities facing similar 
problems.



MZ