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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