Here's how Robert Cumming, manager of environmental affairs at Lafarge Canada, explained the situation in a recent e-mail: Continue reading Lafarge's Ontario plant still on track for biomass burn in cement kilns → (cleanbreak.ca)
The objective of this study was to compile data on the status of POPs emissions from the cement industry, to share state of the art knowledge about PCDD / F formation mechanisms in cement production processes and to show how it's possible to control and minimise PCDD / F emissions from cement kilns utilising integrated process optimisation, so called primary measures. (wbcsdcement.org)
Macerl is an organic farmer from Slovenia who successfully stopped a Lafarge cement kiln from co-incinerating toxic petcoke (a byproduct of oil refining) and hazardous industrial waste by rallying legal support from fellow Eko Krog activists. (goldmanprize.org)