[Dioxin-l] Re: Dioxin-l digest, Vol 1 #10 - 9 msgs

[Jon Campbell]

Yao,

       You are quite right about its danger. There are numerous resources
regarding incineration that you can look at, from summary information to
extremely detailed, which speak to its dangers. Here are a few.

1. You'll find a good 2-page summary of the dioxin problem at
http://www.cqs.com/edioxin.htm.
2. You'll find several good articles about incineration at
http://www.cqs.com/egeneral.htm, scroll down to Solid Waste. Especially
refer to the short paper on "100% Recycling" for ideas on what you might
promote as an alternative.
3. For a very large repository of excellent articles about incineration,
refer to the Waste Not archive at http://www.workonwaste.org.
4. For an extremely detailed account of dioxin and its health effects and
exposure to the general population, given that 80% or more of dioxin
exposure is due to incinerator emissions in industrial countries, refer to
http://www.cqs.com/epa for the complete versions of the 1994 EPA Dioxin
Reassessment. These are massive documents, broken up into chapters; I
apologize for this part of the website not being more descriptive.
5. You'll find more than a few summary articles about incineration which are
quite eloquent and detailed at the archive of Rachel's Environmental Health
Weekly at http://www.rachel.org.

       Incineration is in essence a hoax, a trick by the incinerator
industry to buy their machines and technology, or at best an ill-conceived
attempt at recycling of the energy of waste which played into the hands of
the incinerator industry. Everything that is wrong with landfills is doubly
wrong with incinerators: instead of dumping garbage into a hole,
incinerators produce intensely toxic waste that you must then dump into a
hole, and putting the rest of the toxic waste into the air. Most of the
energy inherent in the waste, which could be recaptured by simple reuse and
recycling, is lost. It's actually that simple and straightforward.

       The USEPA has several publications on Pay As You Throw, an system
that encourages recycling through monetary incentives. If you cannot find it
on the EPA website (http://www.epa.gov) please send mail and I will attempt
to obtain information about it.

Regards
Jon Campbell

-----Original Message-----
From: Yao [mailto:yaoq@tsinghua.edu.cn]
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 8:19 PM
To: dioxin-l@venice.essential.org
Subject: [Dioxin-l] Re: Dioxin-l digest, Vol 1 #10 - 9 msgs



Experts in the lists:

I am a professor in combustion. Recently I begin my research work on
incineration of waste. I found it is very dangerous to burn the waste
but less information on hand in China. In China about 130 million tonnes

per year of MSW produced and about 6 billion tones MSW are now stored
arround the cities. The land is so limited here and it is not possible
to landfills all the MSW. Most of the companies said incineration maybe
a good way to treat MSW but dioxins pollution is the most concerned
problem. I do not think it is a good idea to do a thing which is so
uncertain.

Anyone who can help are very appreciated.

Yao Qiang

Prof. and Director
Institute of Thermal Engineering
Department of Thermal Engineering
Tsinghua University
Beijing,100084
P.R.China
FAX:0086-10-62773513
Tel:0086-10-62773969



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