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Myth
- No incinerator manufactured in
India meets current norms. |
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Fact
- Incinerator design in India is
already in a fairly advanced stage. Many
companies are in the process of exporting
machines to Europe and North America. |
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EMISSION VALUES OF
HAAT INCINERATORS |
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(Based on test
reports from different State Pollution
Control Boards & Authorized Test
Houses) |
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Myth
- Incineration is an outdated
western technology that is being dumped
on gullible countries like India.
Incineration is banned in most western
countries. |
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Fact
- Far from being banned, this is
the status in 3 developed nations |
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 United
States - ' Currently, over
90% of potentially
infectious medical waste is
incinerated. '
Source- United States
Environmental Protection
Agency (USEPA)
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 Germany
- ' The arguments
against waste incineration
plants in particular are
still found in many places in
the world where such
facilities are planned.
Today, however, technologies
are available which have made
waste incineration
a clean and environmentally
sound form of waste
management, so that such
opposition is now unfounded.
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Source - Federal Environment
Ministry
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 Australia
- ' Incineration
is the only permitted method
of destruction of medical
waste in South Australia. '
Source - South Australian
Environmental Protection
authority.
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Myth
- All Incinerators and only
incinerators produce dioxins. |
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Fact
- Dioxins are generated in
residential fireplaces, open burning,
home grills, diesel engines, paper mills,
pesticides and wood-preservative
manufacturing, chemical industries, etc. |
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Dioxins are generally
formed in the lower temperature range and
only in the presence of halogens
like chlorine. |
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An incinerator testing
programme in Canada showed that concentration
of dioxins and furans tend to be effectively
destroyed when the temperature is
raised to 1200° C. |
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Myth
- Banning incinerators will ensure
a cleaner atmosphere. |
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Fact
- Modern systems achieve excellent
emission. To ensure a cleaner atmosphere,
why not ban all automobiles also and
reduce lead, benzene and suspended
particulate matter emission? If you
compare an incinerator's emission to the
vehicles traversing on a busy road, you
will find that CO emissions from the
vehicles will be
47 times higher. |
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Myth
- Incineration has the worst
environmental impact compared to other
methods of managing waste. |
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Fact
- All
methods like recycling,
composting, land-filling and incineration
have similar
environmental impacts. Comparison
of impacts is difficult because
alternative systems generate different
pollutants having various toxicities,
effects, risks and modes and affect
different populations and eco systems.
Analysis of health risks from dioxins and
trace metals in composting and
incineration processes indicate that
because human exposure to these
substances may be greater through food
chain pathways than through inhalation
pathways, the risks
may be actually be greater from composting. |
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The US Congress Office
of Technology Assessment (USCOTA)
says in a report, 'It is not possible to
quantitatively determine whether
recycling produces more or less
pollutants, or poses greater or fewer
risks, per ton of material processed than
do incineration or land-filling.' |
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