Help,
You can make a real difference ban the kiln. I have
printed off over 100 pages from the internet why we should have no
kiln.
It is easy to complain, may I suggest that
alternative uses of waste tyres be explored
i.e.Rubber Modified Asphalt Concrete (RUMAC) or
recycled to produce:- mats, flooring, tennis shoe soles,
etc.
"One recently reported British
epidemiological study documented "marked
concentration" of
larynx cancer cases among adults In a community within two
kilometres of a
commercial waste incinerator.80
A study of the industrial waste incinerator at
Coppull, Lancaster, showed a correlation between proximity to the
incinerator and the incidence of cancer of the larynx. The incinerator
burned
liquid wastes, solvents and oils and operated from 1972 to 1980.
There were
frequent public protests about irritant gases which were emitted
from the
plant.81
In 1985 the operators of an incinerator run by
ReChem International at
Bonnybridge, Scotland, closed the plant for
economic reasons. Since then, a
farmer near the incinerator sued
ReChem for loss of a large number of cattle.
TCDD was detected in the
milk from the farm. The case has yet to be heard in
court. ReChem points to a
small municipal incinerator next to their plant as the
source of
dioxins.82
At the same incinerator in Scotland, a study
found an increase in the frequency of human baby twinning in the areas most at
risk from air pollution from chemical waste incineration at the ReChem
plant. For the same
time and locations, a "dramatic
increase" in twinning among dairy
cattle was documented.Scientists
conducting the study suggested that this effect
was linked with
incinerator air emissions of "polychlorinated hydrocarbons,
some of
which have oestrogenic properties".83
Newspapers have reported controversy over
observed cases of eye defects in children and calves born in the
locality of the ReChem Bonnybridge plant. In 1984 three babies
were born with
defective or missing eyes, and twelve calves were born
blind.84
TCDD, detected in farm milk near the plant, is
suspected of attacking the optic nerve.In a legal
decision in Ireland,
damage has been attributed to an industrial operation
including an
incineration plant, in the Hanrahan case of contaminated cattle.85
In 1978 farmer Hanrahan noticed health
defects in his dairy herd. In 1976, about
a mile from his farm in Clonmel,
County Tipperary, an incinerator had started
burning the waste
generated by the factory, a US multi-national pharmaceutical
company Merck,
Sharpe and Dohme. The company and local and national authorities
refused to accept Hanrahan's claim that the plant was causing the
problem. By
1985, when Hanrahan took Merck, Sharpe and Dohme to the High
Court in Ireland,
over 220 of his once prized dairy herd had died. He
pointed to the incinerator as
the most damaging source of the problem. A
Canadian pathologist testified on
Hanrahan's behalf that dioxins and
PCBs had been found in soil and foliage samples
taken on the farm.
Hanrahan lost in the High Court butin 1988 the Supreme Court
overturned the
ruling, blaming emissions from the factory, notably the
incinerator,
as the cause of the pollution that destroyed his dairy herd.
After an investigation into ReChem
hazardous waste incineration at Pontypool in the UK,
Welsh Affairs Select
Committee of MP's said that no more incinerators should be
built in
residential areas. The committee recommended a monitoring programme and
said
a public inquiry should be held if a serious health or environmental risk
is
shown.86
A health survey in Alsen, Louisiana, USA, site
of a hazardous waste
incinerator operated by Rollins, Inc., found
three cancer deaths in one block of
nine houses, with two children in
one family suffering from cancer. A 1980 health
survey found 80% of
the population suffering from headaches, respiratory ailments
and sinus
problems. A more recent Burley found asthma in 20% of the community as
opposed to 7% in a control group.87"
When Europe inevitably dumps its
unwanted waste on Welsh soil, lets recycle it, not burn it, and
make a profit without poisoning the people.
Regards.
Gary Vickers
+Wife and two children aged 9 and 11
Links against
incineration: