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A really bad piece of 2021 legislation in Virginia – ‘Advanced Recycling’
The 2021 Virginia legislature passed a really bad compromise piece of “environmental” legislation. They swapped a styrofoam ban for extremely polluted air, water, and land. Instead of…
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Material Safety Data Sheet on Tire-Derived Oil – Ouch!
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…
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Waste Rubber-Derived Oil – Toxic, and part of the previous Stafford Incinerator Proposal
http://psrcentre.org/images/extraimages/413024.pdf 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…
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The Land Beneath the Parks – Toxic Waste In Playgrounds
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…
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Health Effects of Recycled Waste Tires in Playgrounds
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…
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An Industry Blowing Smoke – Need Help Understanding Terminology?
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…
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Human Health Effects of Biomass Incineration
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. The first presentation describes Vermont’s…
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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…
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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).”…
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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…
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