Bioaccumulation
Because the harmful effects of incineration are cumulative, they may take years or decades to finally overpower our immune systems. Independent scientists (researchers who have not been paid by those in the incinerator and garbage-processing industries, who stand to profit by “proving” that burners are safe) studying the effects of burner emissions are discovering alarming relationships between the incidences of serious diseases – cancers, reproductive system disorders, immune system disorders, heart and lung disease, asthma and other breathing disorders (especially the increases in childhood asthma), ADHD and other brain-function disorders in children, and fetal health disorders – and patients’ proximity to burners. For current research, see:
- Low Doses, Big Effects: Scientists Seek Fundamental Changes in Testing, Regulation of Hormone-Like Chemicals, Environmental Health News, March 15, 2012.
- Childhood Asthma on the Rise as Political Battles Threaten EPA’s Air Pollution Rules, Huffington Post, March 14, 2012.
- Air Pollution Linked to Learning and Memory Problems, Depression, Science Daily, July 5, 2011.
- Air Pollution Around Schools is Linked to Poorer Student Health & Academic Performance, Health Affairs, May 2011.
- Public Policy Position: Energy [NO SUPPORT for Energy Production through Biomass/Waste Combustion], American Lung Association, June 11, 2011.
- Minnesota Nurses Association Letter to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, November 8, 2010. MNA Resolution.
- Acid Rain is Back, & Thanks to Farming, Worse Than Ever, grist, June 24, 2010.
- Does America Cause Cancer?, grist, May 6, 2010.
- North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians Opposes Incineration, April 19, 2010.
- Air Pollution Increases Infants’ Risk of Bronchiolitis, Science Daily, November 7, 2009.
- Duval County, Florida Medical Society Opposes Incineration, 2/10.
- Massachusetts Medical Society Opposes Biomass Plants, Greenfield Recorder, January 26, 2010.
- Climate Advocates Should Build Ties with the Public-Health Community, grist, December 8, 2009.
- America’s Most Toxic Cities, Forbes, November 2, 2009.
- Facilities Releasing TRI [Toxics Release Inventory] Chemicals to the Environment — for MN, Scorecard; The Pollution Information Site.
- “The Price of Pollution: Cost Estimates of Environment-Related Childhood Disease in Minnesota“
- Minnesota Ranks #7 in Top Ten States in U.S. Incinerating PVC’s
- Pollution Can Change Your DNA in 3 Days, Study Suggests, National Geographic, May 17, 2009.
- “Using the Precautionary Principle: A Citizen’s Guide” by Paul Connett, November 17, 2009.
- Connection Between Plastics in Environment & Rising Obesity Rates, PBS NOVA: Ghost in Your Genes, 2007.
- MPCA Sees Rise in Mercury Levels in Northern Pike, Walleye from State Lakes
- “Lead, Smoke Exposure in Kids Linked to ADHD”
- “Lead Exposure Endangers Children”
- “An American Life Worth Less Today”
- “Lobbyists Fight Clean Air Rules”
- “The Health Effects of Waste Incinerators: Risk Assessment”
- “MPCA Air Quality Index”
- China’s Incinerators Loom as a Global Hazard, NYTimes.com, August 12, 2009.
- “Dioxin and Breast Milk: the French Island Incinerator”
- “The Inuit’s Struggle with Dioxins and Other Organic Pollutants.”
- “Dioxin Documentation”
- Panel Finds Smog-Mortality Link, National Academy of Sciences, April 23, 2008.
- BodyBurden: The Pollution in Newborns, Environmental Working Group, July 2005.
- Toxic Link to Endometriosis, Endometriosis Association, 2005.
- Prevent Cancer Now: Let’s Say “No” to Incineration in Canada
- Sexual Maturation in Relation to Polychlorinated Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Environmental Health Perspectives, August 2002.