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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> "The current framework used to assess health effects from incinerators <br /> considers local populations but often excludes workers and regional <br /> populations... Whether waste incineration poses a health risk has been the <br /> subject of continuous scientific debate." <br /> <br /> http://eetd.lbl.gov/ied/pdf/LBNL-46084.pdf <br /> <br /> Managing the Health Impacts of Waste Incineration <br /> This paper was prepared as a feature article for the journal Environmental Science and <br /> Technology July 2000 <br /> <br /> This work was carried out at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under the U.S. <br /> Department of Energy contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098 with funding provided in part by the <br /> United States Environmental Protection Agency National Exposure Research Laboratory through <br /> Interagency Agreement* DW89938190-01-0. 1 <br /> The current framework used to assess health effects from incinerators considers local populations <br /> but often excludes workers and regional populations <br /> Thomas E. McKone, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and School of Public Health, <br /> University of California, Berkeley, California <br /> S. Katharine Hammond, University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, <br /> Berkeley, California <br /> <br /> Abstract Incineration has emerged over the last century as a viable strategy for (a) reducing the <br /> volume of municipal waste, (b) for reducing substantially the volume of chemical and biological <br /> hazardous wastes, (c) for destroying medically contaminated hospital waste, and (d) for producing <br /> energy. Facing an exponential rise in garbage production, policy-makers in the US selected waste <br /> incineration in the 1970s as a waste-management option. By that time European nations had <br /> already made a strong commitment to waste incineration. Waste incineration has been employed <br /> in some form for centuries. However, in the last several decades, the quantity of material <br /> combusted, public concerns about the health and ecological impacts of combustion facilities, the <br /> level of environmental control, and the cost of control have all increased. Whether waste <br /> incineration poses a health risk has been the subject of continuous scientific debate. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Comm No. <br /> Ref. To: <br /> Ref. Date epg 15 9nnA <br />