Both EarthTech and Thiess propose to incinerate toxic contaminants at Rhodes.
Residents in the area are opposed to incineration.
Newington has the Silverwater Medical Waste Incinerator on one side and the toxic liquid waste plant on the other. Now more incineration is being added to this sacrifice zone/toxic triangle.
The main reasons are: possibility of release of dioxins from stack emissions, toxicity of dioxin, possibility of volatilization of metals, lack of continuous sampling of stack emissions and health studies which show increased health problems of residents down wind of incinerators.
The following sources give further information.
Transcript of a speech
by Prof Paul Connett
Greenpeace's
Anti Incineration Home Page
See also their Ban
the Burns Campaigns Page
Global Anti Incineration Alliance www.no-burn.org
(GAIA)
A website based on the book "Our Stolen
Future" referred to by Prof
Paul Connett during his presentation at Rhodes http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/
Articles
about the fight against incineration in the US. http://www.workonwaste.org/wastenots/index.html
Paul Connett's Web
Site http://www.workonwaste.org/index.html
Health Care Without Harm's "What's Wrong with
Incineration" (pdf 76kb)
Health Care Without Harm's "Non-Incineration Medical Waste Treatment Technologies"
CANK (Campaign Against New Kiln) http://www.cank.org.uk/
CANK indexed the transcript of Prof Connett's
speech. Another community's fight against
incineration.