[Dioxin-l] New Incinerators in China

[Tony Tweedale]

I might commit suicide if I had to live in a world were someone forced me
to make such irrational choices--I can think of no situation, in fact, were
your mind-game would be real--ie offering this choice implies that other
choices are available.  The answer, obviously, is to refuse the money or
spend it on economically more attractive alternatives such as creating
demand for recycled goods, investing in recycled commodity futures @ the
Chicago Board of Trade (whose purpose is to enlarge the size of the
recycled markets by creating rigid quality specifications and creating more
stable demand), etc.  I believe it's not disputed that MWI incinerators are
huge money sinks, even factoring in energy recovery (btw, the energy
savings from recycling, much less reduction, are far greater than what is
recovered in incineration); that recycling creates much more wage & salary
income; etc, etc...  And, though I've never read or thought about it, the
fact that less "developed" economies reutilize the materials we burn wold
seem they're in a better starting position.  Time to think outside the
creaky old box a bit, fred!
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>On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Vergil Bushnell wrote:
>> As China opens up, the incinerator companies move in. Sounds familiar.
>>
>> The small size of these incinerators seems to indicate that they will be
>> used for medical or haz. waste.
>>
>This is perhaps a rhetorical question, but if one had a limited amount of
>funds to install on incinerators in China or in the U.S. which would be
>best way to spend 1-3 billion dollars:
>
>install best available technologies on U.S. facilities
>
>install best available technologies on facilities in China
>
>Fred Stoss