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Interesting article which shows that the reduction of non-recycled waste is possible if the public will is there!
http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/news/2029.php4
Cancer: guilty cremation
Scientists confirm link between cremation and cancer
Associations call for an immediate moratorium
Paris, November 30 - The Institut National de Veille Sanitaire (INVS) presented this morning a damning study for waste incineration, which confirms that populations living near household waste incinerators are at risk increased cancer. The study "Incidence of cancers near household waste incineration plants" is the largest epidemiological study ever carried out in France on the health impact of incineration.
"It has now been shown that incineration is responsible for cancers in local populations living nearby", says Sébastien Lapeyre, incineration project manager at CNIID."The CNIID calls for a moratorium on the incineration and the immediate suspension of the 16 incinerator projects in France. The industry can no longer lie about the harmful effects of incineration on human health and it is time to put an end to this archaic and dangerous technology. This study is the recognition of the combat of the hundreds of associations which fight at local level against projects of incinerators."
The INVS jointly conducted two studies on dioxin impregnation and the incidence of cancer near household waste incineration plants. The latter highlights a significant relationship between the place of residence under an incinerator plume from 1972 to 1985 and the increased risk of certain cancers, especially breast cancer in women.
These health effects are apparently not only linked to dioxin but also to the many other pollutants emitted by incinerators, the vast majority of which are neither measured nor controlled (1). "Be careful, dioxins must not be the tree hiding the forest"warns Lapeyre."20 compounds for atmospheric releases have been included in the standards, notably 12 heavy metals such as mercury or lead, but the list of pollutants not subject to standards is even longer. Many organic compounds are produced by incineration and are not measured while they are also persistent, toxic and bioaccumulative, like dioxins."
On the one hand incineration produces thousands of pollutants other than dioxin, on the other hand dioxins and pollutants which are not released into the smoke are found in the solid and liquid residues of incineration (bottom ash, residues of incineration fumes, liquid treatment waste) and are therefore diffused into the environment by other routes. In addition, even if the concentrations of dioxins in the flue gases from incinerators are expected to decrease following the setting in standards of December 2005, the quantities emitted by incinerator will remain overall high due to the increase in the capacity of the incinerators, the flow of smoke released and the quantity of waste treated.
"At a time when the WHO (2) describes the increase in the number of cancers as a veritable epidemic, it seems absurd that incineration is today a treatment system still widely used, developed and supported in France, knowing that this process produces thousands of different pollutants and prevents the development of alternative waste treatment channels", said Eric Gall, Director of CNIID."It is time to program at the political level the end of incineration and finally put in place in France an ambitious waste prevention policy worthy of the name. To do this, we ask all candidates for the presidential election to vote in favor of a moratorium on the construction of new incinerators."
The CNIID (National Center for Independent Information on Waste) is an association dedicated to the reduction at source of toxicity and quantity of waste. The CNIID is only funded by its members and denounces the current management of waste in France, 40% of which is incinerated and 40% is landfilled. The CNIID also provides the Secretariat of the National Coordination for the reduction of waste at source, which brings together more than 270 local associations fighting against landfill or incinerator projects.
Notes:
(1) Out of the thousands of molecules resulting from the combustion of waste, 20 compounds for atmospheric emissions have been included in the standards, in particular 12 heavy metals (including mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium), monoxide carbon CO, inorganic gases (hydrogen chloride HCl, hydrogen fluoride HF, sulfur dioxide SO2 and nitrogen oxides NO and NO2). However, the majority of pollutants emitted by incinerators are not subject to standards. Many organic compounds are produced by incineration, including several groups of chlorinated compounds such as hexachlorobenzene (HCB), or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Halogenated bromine compounds, present in raw waste and from the same family as chlorine and fluorine, are also not taken into account.
(2) World Health Organization
contacts:
Sébastien Lapeyre, incineration project manager at CNIID, on 01 55 78 28 65 or 06 87 34 33 97
Eric Gall, Acting Director of CNIID, on 01 55 78 28 66 or 06 17 64 14 28
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