Health risks municipal incinerators

Nessel CS, Butler JP, Post GB, et al. 1991. Evaluation ofthe relative contribution of exposure routes in a health risk assessment of dioxin emissions from a municipal waste incinerator. J Exposure Anal Environ Epidemiol l(3) 283-307. 

Meneses M, Schumacher M, Domingo JL. Health risk assessment of emissions of dioxins and furans from a municipal waste incinerator Comparison with other emissions. Environ Int2004 30(4) 481-9. 

French Society of Public Health (1999) Municipal Solid Waste Incineration and Public Health A Review of the State of the Art and a Risk Evaluation. ISBN -2-911489-07-1. Collection Sant6 et Societe, N°7 - Nov. 1999. 

Also M. Gough and D. Turnbull, Use of a Threshold Model for the Estimation of Risk Associated with Exposure to Chlorinated Dibenzo-p-di-oxins and Dibenzofurans, in H. A. Hattemer-Frey and . C. Travis, eds., Health Effects of Municipal Waste Incineration (Boca Raton, Fla. CRS Press, 1989), pp.20151-46. 

Official reports from France and Switzerland (Chambaz D. and al. (1998), French Society of Public Health (1999)) confirm that municipal waste incinerators do not present any risk for the population as regards cadmium emissions. 

The Canadian report concluded that dry-cell batteries do not represent a concentrated source of heavy metals in municipal solid waste and their disposal by landfill or incineration poses insignificant risk to human health. Furthermore they concluded that separate collection, storage and disposal of most household batteries produced more significant health related problems and that recycling of primary batteries was neither necessary nor needed. 

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