Analysis of Risk in the Surroundings of a Waste Incineration Plant

Journal/Book: Natur- und Ganzheitsmedizin Wissenschaft und Praxis. 1990; 3/5: 147-152.

Abstract: Proceedings for the planning permission of running waste incineration plants are based an the "Technical Instructions Air" (TI-air) of an anticipated expert opinion. However, for waste incineration plants the TI-air cannot have this stated quality. The emission-cocktail of a waste incineration plant consists, between 80 and 90%, of unknown substances which are not evaluated. A particular weakness lies in the fact that methods of analysis do not account for the concentration of substances in the food chain. For certain risk-groups such as children and ill people, the threshold-values are already fixed too high; therefore, the expert opinion of the environment for 1987 demands that the threshold-values should possibly not be reached. In the meantime, the threshold-values for the dioxine pollution have already been overstepped. The dioxine-emission of new plants therefore needs to be 95°/o below that of old plants. So far, such a reduction cannot be technically solved. An observance of the threshold-values is only feigned through imprecise measuring methods.

Keyword(s): Dioxin

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