ZERO WASTE is the recycling of all materials back into nature or the marketplace
in a manner that protects human health and the environment.
 


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CONSUMERS-
BUSINESS:
   INCINERATORS make waste more toxic and ... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do not eliminate waste, but change the form of waste into hazardous air emissions and toxic ash.

Convert 30% of the waste burned into toxic ash, which EPA allows to be used as daily landfill cover.

Spread hazardous contamination worldwide; contaminating air, soil, and water.

Are a major source of 210 different dioxin compounds, plus mercury, cadmium, nitrous oxide, hydrogen chloride, sulfuric acid, fluorides, and particulate matter small enough to lodge permanently in the lungs.

 

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Ask for an Incinerator - Get More Landfills and Waste Imports
Excerpts from a 1998 e-mail by Lynn Landes, ZWA:

>It is important to keep in mind that waste corporations are in the business
>of receiving as much waste as possible. If a waste facility is being proposed for
>your area, you can expect to receive waste imports from other states and foreign
>countries, as well.
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>Bucks County, PA, generates about 2,000 tons of waste per day, but has been
>permitted to received 20,000 tons of waste. Much of that waste is incinerator ash
>from New Jersey and New York.
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>In the 1980's, Waste Management Inc., (WMI, now WMX) bought up about
>6,000 acres in Falls Township and Tullytown, PA. Much of this property was
>in the floodplain.  An old landfill was already on the property. WMI received a permit from
>the PA Dept.of Environmental Protection (DEP) to build a new landfill over the old one.
>This is a typical strategy operators enlist in the hope of escaping liability for ground water
>contamination...by blaming it on the old landfill.
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>Next, they asked to build a new separate landfill in Tullytown (part of the
>same land parcel). PA DEP permitted that, as well.
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>Finally, WMI's subsidiary, Wheelabrator, asked for and received a permit to
>build an incinerator on the same land parcel as the landfills. They told the public
>that they needed the incinerator, so that they would not have to expand their 2 landfills.
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>Wheelabrator promised to build a monofill for their incinerator ash. That never happened.
>Instead, they got permission from EPA to use incinerator ash as daily landfill cover,
>rather than clean soil, which is what they promised the public.
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>Since then, Waste Management continued to ask for and receive landfill expansion
>permits. Although, I haven't kept track of all the latest developments, I
>estimate that the two landfills are permitted to cover about 500 acres, 240
>feet high.  They constitute a mountain range in what was once a floodplain.
>
>The local citizenry are extremely apathetic. Opposition to Waste Management
>came from a very few environmental activists, including myself, who lived in
>adjacent communities. Although we received good coverage by the local media,
>we were considered outsiders by local politicians and, therefore, largely dismissed.