Hazards of Medical Waste Incineration
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چکیده
The reality is that incinerators don’t eliminate toxic substances, they concentrate them. The saying is: toxics in/toxics out. The heavy metals, mercury, lead and cadmium, don’t just disappear; they are basic elements not destroyed by burning. They are still present after incineration, only concentrated in the ash and released to the air from the stack. Of all the trash that enters the incinerator, 30% remains as ash at the end of the process. That’s a great deal of very toxic ash which you see in huge piles along I-5 just north of Woodburn.
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