Significant health issues occur when the population is exposed to air , water, or land pollution, shortening lives.
http://www.miamiherald.com/static/media/projects/the-land-beneath-the-parks
Dumping grounds for waste and incinerator ash around Miami were covered over with parks and playgrounds. Methane, arsenic, benzo(a)pyrene, and other hazardous chemicals have been found in the soil under the playgrounds and in the groundwater. This has cost the municipal governments millions of dollars in soil remediation. The Miami Herald, Andres Viglucci, 2013
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/publications/Documents/Tires%5C62206013.pdf
California funded this study of recycled tires’ toxicity, specifically in playground and running tracks. The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment produced detailed analysis of chemicals and elements in waste tires. OEHHA also analyzed the devastating effect of these chemicals on surrounding plan and animal life over time. OEHHA, January 2007
http://www.no-burn.org/downloads/BlowingSmokeReport.pdf
Are you looking for definitions for all the big, foreign words in the incinerator industry? Through myth-busting explanations and clarifications, this report explains the awful effects of the incinerator technologies: high capital cost, toxicity, and the elimination of recycling programs for profit. Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, David Ciplet, June 2006
http://saveamericasforests.org/Forests%20-%20Incinerators%20-%20Biomass/Documents/Briefing/
Three accomplished physicians, and the co-director of Biofuelwatch explain to Congress that biomass incinerators (including tire incinerators) are an unacceptable waste solution.
Congressional Briefing, September 2012
http://www.energyjustice.net/files/incineration/incineration.pdf
“Pyrolysis” is just a fancy name for incineration. It is also a “failed technology” that has failed repeatedly. Discover how zero waste technology is absolutely achievable (slides 68-81). Energy Justice Network PowerPoint Presentation, October 2013
Dr. Smolker 9cite credentials) tells Congress that biomass incinerators (including tire incinerators) are an unacceptable waste solution. Vermont’s McNeil Biomass Incinerator, causes the most air pollution of all the facilities in the state. The article points out that Governmental regulations are consistently UNSUCCESSFULsuccessful in controlling the dangers of the existing biomass incinerators.
http://www.conradind.com/pi_tire_derived_oil_msds.asp
OSHA requires chemical reporting on potentially hazardous materials through Material Safety Data Sheets. The MSDA on tire-derived oil reveals a nasty list of the hazardous effects of tire oil on people and the environment. [Name a few examples, in a way such as: “dioxins, often called the single most poisonous substance created by humanity, which can cause birth defects, damage the immune system, and cause cancer; and mercury, which causes all types of diseases including becoming blind, deaf, and mute, if you are not killed, even in small amounts ]
Pyrolysis of waste tires makes “a dark brown to almost black liquid which is highly viscous with a sharp and irritating smell, and contain high concentration of sulphur (p.16).” The oil industry has discovered that the waste oil from tire incineration MIGHT SOMEDAY be an alternative fuel. It hasn’t worked yet.
http://news.fredericksburg.com/staffordnews/2013/08/08/eep-replies-to-citizen-concerns-about-waste-to-energy-proposal-in-email/
Energy Extraction Partners, a subsidiary of CES, attempts to explain why a tire incinerator would be a good thing for Stafford County. The company repeatedly makes unsubstantiated claims about their successes, and the safety and efficiency of its technology. But they also make important statements that would force any rational person to not build an incinerator at all. Fredericksburg.com, 2013-08-08.
http://www.energyjustice.net/
Biomass incineration is one of the most expensive, inefficient and polluting ways to make energy — even dirtier than coal in some ways. Forests are destroyed, the climate is cooked, crop lands are wasted, resources are destroyed and low-income communities and communities of color suffer increased health problems from this unnecessary dirty energy source that poses as renewable energy. This site has lots of information to help people realize just how bad this is.