Dioxin formation . . .

["Jim & Jackie Elliott" <jj@TurboNT.net>]

We are being asked to pay for a retrofit to the Wheelabrator MSW incinerator in our community for the purpose of "reducing" mercury emissions. The plan is for a carbon injection system that cools flue gases allowing extra mercury to be captured. A dastardly option! If I'm understanding some of how dioxin is formed in the incineration process, cooling the stack gases produces more dioxin. Correct? If this is the case, it would be another argument against retrofit. Thanks for any help. Jackie