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New Report Confirms Health Concerns over Incineration (Download pdf)

The amount of waste of all kinds produced by human societies is increasing in quantity. Therefore strong political and industrial measures are urgently needed to change this trend. Incineration is not the solution: it is part of the problem. Incinerators reduce the volume of solid waste but they do not make the problem of toxic substances in the waste disappear - incinerators emit a wide range of pollutants in their stack gases, ashes and other residues: for example, they are still the number one source of dioxins world-wide. The filters used to clean incinerator stack gases also produce solid and liquid toxic wastes.

Incineration is NOT the way forward to Clean Production. Indeed, it is an obstacle to clean production as some industries and governments see incineration as an easy way to get rid of their wastes, instead of looking into the products and the processes, in order to avoid toxics production in the first place.

But opposition to incinerators is growing world-wide. There is no room for incineration of wastes in a sustainable society.

LETS STOP INCINERATION!