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
Category: Environmental Problems Caused by Incinerators
Significant environmental issues can and have occurred, affecting the air quality, groundwater and surface running water, dumping ash created by burning/melting materials that are toxic components into local dumpsites and landfills. Find out.
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Biomass/Waste Incineration
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Health Impacts of Pollution From Biomass Incinerators, Congressional Briefing, September 2012
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.
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OSHA Material Safety Data Sheet: Tire Derived Oil
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 ]
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Qualitative Analysis of Waste Rubber-Derived Oil as an Alternative Diesel Additive, April 2013
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.
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Citizen Voice Concerns about Stafford Incinerator
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. -
Biomass Incineration is DIRTY Energy
http://www.energyjustice.net/
biomass 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.