open letter AugustAmbiente, Decontamination Sicily
Constituent Ecologist and Island Clean City Committee
all’On. Presidente della Regione Raffaele Lombardo
Egregio On. Presidente Lombardo, avevamo apprezzato la Sua responsabile presa di posizione sul Piano Rifiuti che, di fatto, azzerava i 4 inceneritori di Cuffaro, ma rimaniamo delusi dalla decisione di utilizzare il CDR come co-combustibile nei cementifici per i seguenti motivi:
1. si tratta sempre di ricorso alla combustione, con l’aggravante che i cementifici risultano più inquinanti degli inceneritori in quanto non dotati di specifici sistemi di abbattimento delle polveri e tanto meno dei microinquinanti, ed autorizzati con limiti di emissioni higher (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 obtained using CDR, the message "cement obtained by co-Cdr fuel, such as cement is hazardous to health due to the release of heavy metals by products 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 (How many 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 as a result of ' noise and dust, in Priolo, in the middle of industrial area, already heavily compromised, with the Island of the Females (PA) and Porto Empedocle (AG), the latter two in urban areas with high tourist.
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 "Objective Zero Waste "which focuses on recycling and considers and uses 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 artificial sand for good construction, how does one "Vedelago?
Everything, 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
Waste Plan, critical environmental organizations
March 8, 2011 - 14:50
Four environmental organizations write to the President of Sicily Region Raffaele Lombardo to express their disappointment about the 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 4-energy plant planned da Cuffaro ma ma rimaniamo delusi dalla decisione di utilizzare il CDR, ovvero il combustibile derivato dai rifiuti, nei cementifici, in quanto questi risultano più inquinanti degli inceneritori poichè non dotati di specifici sistemi di abbattimento delle polveri ed autorizzati con limiti di emissioni più alti.” Per le associazioni ambientaliste verrebbe disincentivata la raccolta differenziata e inoltre verrebbe addirittura peggiorato il Piano rifiuti Cuffaro, passando da 4 a 6 inceneritori (quanti sono i cementifici in Sicilia): Modica, Ragusa, Catania, Priolo, Porto Empodocle e Isola delle Femmine questi ultimi due in aree urbane a forte vocazione turistica. Per gli ecologisti l’unica soluzione possibile è “l’Obiettivo Zero Waste "which focuses on recycling and considers and uses 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 fraction of MSW can not be recycled 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.
http://www.teleoccidente.it/wp/17071/piano-rifiuti-critiche-le-associazioni-ambientaliste.html | |
| The cement 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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| The 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 da inceneritori sono stati segnalati numerosi effetti avversi sulla salute sia neoplastici che di altro tipo. |
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| GLI studi riportano aumenti di cancro a: fegato, laringe, stomaco, colon-retto, vescica, rene, mammella. |
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| The landscape, protected by Article 9 of Constitution, MUST BE AL center of our evaluations. We demand the immediate RELOCATION OF 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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