Dioxin releases to land and water in the UK

[Alan Watson <alanwatson@gn.apc.org>]

The UK Environment Agency has just published ŒA review of dioxin releases to land and water in the UK¹, available from Environment Agency, Rio House, Waterside Drive, Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol BS12 41JD, £15.00.

The sources they quantify are:

Main sources	Dioxin release to land in 1993, gTEQ/yr
Coal-fired power stations	1.6-81
Domestic fires: coal and wood	0.43-46
Electric arc steel furnaces	59
Secondary aluminium	29-230
Copper	24
Secondary lead	95-220
PVC/EDC production	25-60
Oer/tri chloroethylene production	350 - 630
Pesticides production	8.9-2,000
Municipal waste incinerators	524-2,440
Clinical waste incinerators	11.7-36.9
Paper and pulp	2.8-11
Accidental fires	7.5-2,400
Sewage sludge disposal	14-56
MSW to landfill	150
Dredging	29
Open use of PCP	100-3,000
Pesticide use	4.8-240
Total	1,500-12,000



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