[Dioxin-l] Dioxins from backyard burning

[Joseph R Parrish Jr]

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"The dioxins and furans released from 2 to 40 burning barrels were found =
to
approximate the amount released from a 200 ton-per-day municipal
incinerator with well-functioning pollution controls. Such an incinerator=

handles garbage from 40,000 to 120,000 households."  =

- from EPA report released today.
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What happens in the "real world" around us in metropolitan New York City,=
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and other urban areas, is that the municipal waste incinerators are burni=
ng
in the middle of a population of over 5 million people who immediately =

breathe the dioxins, etc.  Out in rural areas the coverage of the dioxins=
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within the five mile immediate radius of the burning is probably four to
five =

orders of magnitude lower in numbers of humans immediately affected.  =

So again the incinerator lobby that controls EPA is putting out at
taxpayers =

expense disinformation yet again, trying to cover up their insidious plan=

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keep these waste burners alive, at absolutely enormous health care costs =

which are unconscionable, immoral, unethical, demonic, and despicable.
Joe Parrish
Elizabeth, NJ
(breathing dioxins from burning over 1.5 million tons of city garbage per=

year)

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Re:
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Read it all for yourself for free at:

http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/est/2000/research/es990465t_rev.html





At 06:24 PM 01/04/2000 -0500, you wrote:

>FROM TODAY'S NEW YORK TIMES
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>           In the Backyard, a Potent Source of
>           Pollution
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>           By ROBERT A. SAAR
>
>                Household trash burned in one backyard barrel may releas=
e
more

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