open letter AugustAmbiente, Decontamination Sicily
Constituent Ecologist and Island Clean City Committee
Hon. President of the Region Raffaele Lombardo
Lombardo Dear Mr President, we appreciate your responsible position on the Waste Plan which, in fact, clear the four incinerators Cuffaro, but we remain disappointed by the decision to use the CDR as a co-fuel in cement for the following reasons:
1. it is always used for combustion, with the aggravating circumstance that the cement plants are more polluting incinerators because they do not have specific systems for dust suppression and even less of micropollutants, and authorized with higher emission limits (the limit for dioxins ranging from 0.1 nanograms / cu in incinerators 10 ng / mc in cement, that is 100 times more!). Furthermore, since the operating temperature of cement higher than those of incinerators, emissions, and in particular the nanoparticolato (consisting mainly heavy metals), are even larger; also the U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency ) found significant increases of mercury, one of the most toxic compounds to humans, in the emissions of cement supplied by CDR. In the U.S. cement manufacturers are required to indicate on the containers of cement produced with the use of CDR, the message "cement obtained by co-fuel Cdr " as such cement is hazardous to health due to the release of heavy metals by artifacts made with it ;
2. discouragement of recycling and, in fact, opening the import of CDR, as evidenced by the policy of the incinerators. Furthermore, using the CDR as co-fuel, there is a substantial reduction in the recycling of valuable materials such as paper, cardboard and plastics, and jobs;
3. in fact worsen the plan Cuffaro, from 4 to 6 incinerators (as the number of cement factories in Sicily) Ragusa and Modica, both areas dedicated to livestock and greenhouse crops, causing irreparable financial damage, in Catania, allocated in the urban center that would lead to an increase in heavy traffic and therefore noise and dust, in Priolo, in the middle of industrial area already severely compromised, for Island of the Females (PA) and Porto Empedocle (AG), the latter two in urban areas with a strong tourist vocation.
Mr President, these three reasons why particular concern, and we invite you to take the road that the whole civilized world has long since begun and that is "Zero Waste Goal" which focuses on recycling and considers and exploits waste as a resource.
is it possible that, with scientific knowledge about the devastating health and environmental damage, caused by emissions from incineration plants, we can still continue on the old road of the incinerators' heat-devalued "the environment , health and waste?
is at least as complicated to build a composting plant for the province to require municipalities to enable the collection centers and build those facilities, very clean, which transform the non-recyclable fraction of MSW in good artificial sand for construction , how does one "Vedelago?
all, if you will, is achievable in the short term, with lower costs than the systems with CDR and the creation of more jobs clean.
Augusta, March 7 20 010
f.to Giacinto Franco for "AugustAmbiente"
f.to Louis Solarino for "Decontamination Sicily luigi.solarino @ alice.it
f.to Pino Ciampolillo for "Motion City Island Clean" isolapulita@gmail.com
f.to Paul Pantano for "Constituent Environmentalist" paolopantano@simail.it
PRESS
Piano waste, environmental groups criticized
March 8, 2011 - 14:50
Four environmental organizations write to the President of Sicily Region Raffaele Lombardo to express their disappointment on new waste plan presented yesterday by the governor. "We appreciated the statement, signed by AugustAmbiente, Decontamination Sicily Island Constituent Environmentalist and Clean City Committee, responsible for its initiative to clear the four incinerators planned by Cuffaro but but we remain disappointed by the decision to use the CDR, or fuel derivative waste, cement, because they are more polluting incinerators because they do not have specific dust suppression systems and authorized emission limits higher. "For the environmental groups would also discourage the collection and would be even worse Plan Cuffaro waste from 4 to 6 incinerators (as there are cement factories in Sicily): Modica, Ragusa, Catania, Priolo, Empodocle Port and Island of the latter two females in urban areas with a strong tourist vocation. For environmentalists the only possible solution is the "Zero Waste Goal" which focuses on recycling and considers and uses the garbage as a resource, providing at least a composting plant for the province, forcing the municipalities to enable the collection centers and build those facilities, very clean, which transform the non-recyclable fraction of MSW in good artificial sand for construction. The all-concludes the statement - it is done swiftly, with lower costs than the systems with CDR and the creation of more jobs clean.
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| cement plants and equipment in which case incineration of waste are among unhealthy industries first class basis of ' Article 216 of the Consolidated health of Laws (listed published in OJ No 220 of 20.09.1994). |
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| the meaning of Article 1 of the Constitution of Italian Republic, the citizens have certainly the right to comment on the presence industries in the territory of which the law classifies as a serious source of unhealthiness. |
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| highly toxic substances, Persistent bioaccumulative, particularly dangerous for growing bodies, fetuses and infants ..: Arsenic, Beryllium, Cadmium, Chromium , Nickel, Benzene, Lead, Dioxins, dibenzofurans, polychlorinated biphenyls, hydrocarbons polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). addition to Dioxin , the ' Arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium and Nickel, are carcinogenic certain (class 1 according to the Agency International Agency for Research on Cancer - IARC) for lung, bladder, kidney, colon, prostate |
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| The cement are not able to comply with the regulations if converted to the activity of waste incineration, which is in itself problematic in plant specially designed for that sole purpose . |
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| NOT all substances produced by the combustion of waste are filtered even with the use of modern technologies |
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| combustion of waste you produce the formation of large quantities of ultrafine particles, which shown to have serious human health and entitle action mutagenic and genotoxic. |
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| In populations exposed to emissions of pollutants from from incinerators have been reported numerous adverse health effects is that other types of cancer. |
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| THE studies report increases cancer: liver, larynx, stomach, colon-rectum, bladder, kidney, breast. |
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| Increase in female births and twins, increased malformations congenital hypofunction thyroid, diabetes, ischemia, behavioral problems, chronic lung disease nonspecific, bronchitis, allergies, disorders in childhood |
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| The landscape, protected by Article 9 of Constitution, MUST BE AL center of our evaluations. We demand the immediate RELOCATION THE ITALCEMENTI |
ITALCEMENTI, Pantano, cutin, 39, ecopunto Falletta, Island of the Females, Franco, Solarino, Piombino, PORTOBELLO, waste collection, TAR VENICE 2462/2009 , ARPA, Cementirossi, Decree 693 2008, Fumane
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