[Dioxin-l] Dioxin Production in Australia

[Alan Muller]

At 12:24 PM 1/31/00 -0500, BioRegion Computer Mapping wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>It may be worth having a look at Australia's estimates of dioxins and furans
>generated by community activities. Supposedly, in the south east of
>Queensland, our tropical northern state, the community generates 2.7 tonnes
>of dioxin and furans from their solid fuel burners (kitchen wood stoves and
>domestic heating).
>
>Of course the few estimates of dioxin production in industry available are
>mostly in the less than gram range...with the pulp and paper industry in the
>same region producing only 0.00021 kg dioxin and furans.
>
>It has certainly left us wondering about the worth of estimation techniques
>in pollution inventories.
>
>Any comments or thoughts ???

Sounds very curious, to say the least, but one would have to look into the details of who-did-what.  What sort of peer or other review of the inventory was done before release?  Did industry stooges do the work, or design it?

Alan Muller

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