Incinerators – The Dirty Truth

Facts Rule Out Trash Gasification (Including pyrolysis, plasma arc, and other variations of staged incineration) – Clean Water Action [and Don’t Waste Massachusetts, Energy Justice, EcoCycle and the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives] 1/13 http://cleanwater.org/files/Gasification%20fact%20sheet%20Jan%202013-final.pdf

Stop Incinerators in Disguise – Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice http://greenaction.org/incinerators-in-disguise/

Powerpoint: Incinerators in Disguise [Gasification, Plasma Arc, and Pyrolysis: Renewable Energy and Recycling – or Incinerators in Disguise] – Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice 8/12 http://greenaction.org/powerpoint-incinerators-in-disguise-august-2012/

Burning Public Money for Dirty Energy: Misdirected Subsidies for “Waste to Energy” Incinerators – Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives 11/15/11 http://www.no-burn.org/burning-public-money-for-dirty-energy

Incinerators: Myths vs. Facts – Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives 5/10 http://www.no-burn.org/downloads/Incinerator_Myths_vs_Facts.pdf

An Industry Blowing Smoke: 10 Reasons Why Gasification, Pyrolysis and Plasma Incineration are Not “Green Solutions” – Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives 6/09 http://nobiomassburning.org/docs/Industry_Blowing_Smoke.pdf

Incineration and Incinerators-in-Disguise – Energy Justice Network http://www.energyjustice.net/incineration

Briefing: Pyrolysis, Gasification, and Plasma – Friends of the Earth UK 9/09 http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/gasification_pyrolysis.pdf

Proposals for new facilities in the U.S. [including pyrolysis gasification] have failed when authorities investigated – UK Without Incineration Network 11/25/08 http://www.ukwin.org.uk/?p=599

Incinerators Trash Community Health – Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives 6/08 http://www.no-burn.org/downloads/Incinerators%20Trash%20Community%20Health.pdf

Tellus Institute Report: Assessment of Materials Management Options for the Massachusetts Solid Waste Master Plan Review [Concludes “gasification … [is] unlikely to play a major role in municipal solid waste management in Massachusetts.”  Also notes that “emission factors used to compare environmental performance are based largely on modeling and/or vendor claims … as opposed to actual operational data from real world experience.”] – Tellus Institute 12/08 http://www.mass.gov/dep/recycle/priorities/tellusmmr.pdf

Incineration of Municipal Solid Waste: An Update on Pollution [also addresses pyrolysis gasification and other forms of staged incineration] – Pembina Institute in collaboration with the David Suzuki Foundation, Sierra Legal, Toronto Environmental Alliance, Canadian Environmental Law Association and Great Lakes United 5/07 http://www.pembina.org/pub/1450

“No Incentives for Incinerators Sign-on Statement” – Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives and other organizations 2007 http://www.zerowarming.org/article.php?id=247 http://www.zerowarming.org/article.php?id=248

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