Sentences with phrase «toxic incinerator»
What about issues like toxic incinerator ash and dioxin - laced soil, she wonders.
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Recently, FPA attended a public hearing on the EPA's proposed rules to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from existing and new industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators
Hilary Benn has pointed out that modern incinerators actually emit less toxic gas than a barbeque, and could help to reduce waste and therefore greenhouse gases.
Longtime Capital Region environmentalist Aaron Mair, who cut his teeth on issues from a trash - burning incinerator to toxic lead paint in inner - city homes, will use his voice as the first African - American president of the national board of directors of the Sierra Club.
If you burn PVC [in a municipal - waste incinerator], you get dioxin — very toxic.»
And, last fall, White House aides reportedly pressured the EPA to reconsider its rule for toxic emissions from industrial boilers and incinerators in order to address industry concerns about cost.
exist in paper that is land filled or burned... In incinerators, they become concentrated in either toxic air emissions or hazardous ash, which then must be land filled....
Along with organizations such as the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Philippines and Greenpeace Southeast Asia, we oppose these «waste to energy technologies» because they release large amounts of carbon dioxide that contribute to global warming, along with toxic chemicals that pollute the environment.
As a staffer at Greenpeace International, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), Health Care Without Harm and Essential Action she traveled to more than 40 countries, visiting factories and dumps, training local activists and exposing the international toxic waste trade.
You can protect other communities from toxic air pollution by joining Destiny and to demand that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stop subsidizing trash - burning incinerators.
And how can they class waste as a climate - friendly fuel for incinerators and cement plants when it results in toxic air emissions and increases overall resource and such energy use?
It was because we we're trying to spread the message about the dioxins from proposed waste - to - energy plants, about the harms and all of the potential for harm of the toxics from these incinerators.
After the user abandons the practice of yoga or moves on to a new mat the PVC mat may be sent to a landfill, where it will sit for thousands of years, or even worse, and incinerator, where it will release more of the noxious and toxic gases described earlier.
In applauding the legislation the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) points out that old electronics account for about 40 % of the lead found in municipal landfills as well as mercury, cadmium, and other toxic heavy metals in landfills and municipal incinerators.