Stacy Malkan
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 Over the next 25 years, global chemical production is expected to double in size, and the EPA predicts 600 new hazardous waste sites to appear each month in the US — adding to the 77,000 hazardous waste sites currently in the country."
We may be living longer, but we're living sicker. Chronic diseases and disabilities now affect more than one third of the US population, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
| Congress later passed the Superfund law to clean up hazardous waste sites. "We stood together and demanded, demanded that the government make right," Lois said. "If a small community of working class families can bring the President of the United States to our stage, we can do anything if we stand together." 10
Today, while some efforts have been made to reduce emissions and clean up hazardous waste sites, most chemicals in commerce are produced using the same outdated, polluting technologies developed decades ago. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 In fact, nothing was going to be done about the site for the foreseeable future: the state Superfund had just gone belly up, and there was simply no money left to remove the hazardous waste that permeated the 858 East Ferry property. Case closed.
Grant was dumbfounded by the senselessness of what she was reading. There was no money to remediate a toxic waste site that had been sitting there unbeknownst to residents for decades—and that the city had known about for the past three years? How could that be?
Several other facts concerned her. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| The water source for the manufacturing plant was actually a public water line located near a hazardous waste site!
To add insult to injury, studies have found some bottled water also contains C8, a chemical used to make Teflon*. The toxin was found in southeast Ohio tap water, so residents were given bottled water instead. When the bottled water was tested, traces of C8 were found—the very chemical they were trying to avoid! |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Both The Merck Manual and OSHA SARA 120 hazardous waste Handbook even state that emergency procedures should be taken when exposed via swallowing, inhaling, or through the skin. So it's questionable how safe it is for the long term. I'd also caution pregnant women, the elderly, and children to exercise caution with sucralose," Dr. Hull adds. "And it appears that sucralose might raise problems for diabetics—something that was hinted at in an FDA report."
Another problem with sucralose is that when you mix the man-made chlorine with carbon in sucrose, you get a chlorocarbon. |
Stacy Malkan
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| Today, while some efforts have been made to reduce emissions and clean up hazardous waste sites, most chemicals in commerce are produced using the same outdated, polluting technologies developed decades ago. Every day, the US produces or imports 42 billion pounds of chemicals — enough to fill tanker trucks extending from San Francisco to Washington DC and back again. |
David R. Montgomery
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 No rules prevented mixing hazardous waste into fertilizer, and then into the soil. No one appeared too concerned about such blatant disregard of the importance of healthy soil. Never mind that, as seems obvious, farms are about the last place we should use as a dumping ground for heavy metals.
The way we treat our agricultural soils, whether as locally adapted ecosystems, chemical warehouses, or toxic dumps, will shape humanity's options in the next century. |
Andreas Moritz
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 A weak, irritated and congested large intestine is a breeding place for destructive bacteria which have no other purpose than to break down potentially hazardous waste material. As an unavoidable side effect of their truly life-saving activities, these microorganisms produce toxic, poisonous substances. Some of the toxins produced by the bacteria enter the blood, which delivers them straight to the liver. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Strangely, nobody involved seemed too anxious to talk about the toxic waste-into-fertilizer industry. They didn't have to worry. No rules prevented mixing hazardous waste into fertilizer, and then into the soil. No one appeared too concerned about such blatant disregard of the importance of healthy soil. Never mind that, as seems obvious, farms are about the last place we should use as a dumping ground for heavy metals.
The way we treat our agricultural soils, whether as locally adapted ecosystems, chemical warehouses, or toxic dumps, will shape humanity's options in the next century. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Despite the fact that the soil and groundwater were contaminated at what were termed "high concentrations," the state classified the site as an inactive hazardous waste site—the area was not deemed as "presently constituting a significant threat to human health or the environment." The reasoning was thus: the area was restricted from public use, and the localized contaminated groundwater did not affect public drinking-water supplies since drinking water in the area came from public water storage sources. Cleaning it up was not a priority. |
| PCBs were found in both soil and groundwater in a high-enough concentration to qualify by state definition as a hazardous waste site. But that was the lesser menace. A heavy concentration of lead ash intermingled with the soil sat several inches thick across the 3.32-acre site. The lead existed at a shockingly high concentration. |
| A sign went up stating No Trespassing, but the words "hazardous waste" were not mentioned.
On April 23, 2001, Betty Jean Grant, Ausur Afrika, Antoine Thompson, John Vena, Rhonda Dixon Lee, Marion Jordan, and Judith Anderson as well as nearly fifty others from the community gathered at the True Bethel Baptist Church. They wanted answers from the Department of Environmental Conservation. |
| At about 10 percent of these sites, toxic chemicals are known to be seeping out into communities or people are still freely entering sites and being exposed to the hazardous waste there. The Environmental Protection Agency does not release projections for what it plans to spend to remediate these 1,200 sites, when these areas will be cleaned up, or how long it will take. |
| The six remaining full tanks of chemical waste were emptied, and the basement hazardous waste storage area was closed off. Even so, in May 1996, follow-up testing showed that volatile organic compound contamination still existed in the groundwater, albeit at lower levels—slightly half of what it had been prior to remediation in 1994. However, in one monitored area, the contamination level of VOCs had actually risen after the cleanup.
In March 1997, the DEC filed its final report, the record of decision, indicating that the site at 537 East Delavan was taken care of. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| According to the EPA, "By volume, paint is the largest category of waste brought into household hazardous waste collection programs."61 Paint, especially older paints, can be extremely hazardous to the human body. If you have any old paint cans sitting around in the garage, it's a good idea to take them to an authorized collection center.
Lead-based paints were commonly used until 1977 when the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission finally banned them, but only after many people (including babies) had ingested the toxic substance from exposure to paint chips or dust. |
| Could China be secretly disposing of their hazardous waste by hiding it in the products they ship overseas?
Intestinal Toxins from Cadmium
In general, people are not as aware of the dangers of cadmium as they are of metals such as arsenic, mercury, aluminum, and lead. Cadmium is an extremely toxic heavy metal even in small quantities. Since it's poorly excreted, cadmium can collect slowly in intestinal and body tissue. Over time, damage to the intestines can result and digestion may be severely disrupted. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Shooting ranges could be declared hazardous waste sites by the Environmental Protection Agency when they are shut down, and it will cost millions of dollars to clean them up. DOE recognizes the contamination problem that exists at its own shooting ranges, which are used by security personnel. So, it plans to switch from lead bullets to ESPTM bullets for training and security."
According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (www.nssf.org), categories of ranges include handgun outdoors, rifle outdoors, skeet shooting, sporting clays, trap shooting, and cowboy action shooting. |
David Steinman
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 Earth 911
Visit Earth 911 for community-specific information on recycling and proper household hazardous waste disposal. www.earth911 .org
JACO Environmental www.jacoinc.net
New Way of Thinking
Conscious Consumer www.newdream.org/consumer
Renewables www.thesustainablevillage.com
Energy Efficiency Ratings
Energy Star www.energystar.gov.
Organic Clothing
American Apparel www.americanapparel.net
Blue Canoe www.bluecanoe.com
Chandler & Greene, Inc. www.chandlergreene. com
Eco-ganik
VAVw.ecoganik.com
Inner Waves Organics Maui www.innerwavesmaui.com
NatureUSA www.natureusa. |
Mark Schapiro
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 The Convention designates e-waste as hazardous waste because of its toxic ingredients. As of 2006, 166 countries had ratified the convention —including the entire European Union as a body, and each of the member states individually. The United States is alone among developed countries in not ratifying it.7
Even Europe, however, was slow in implementing a serious approach to e-waste, as Greenpeace's findings reveal. But in 2003, the EU began trying to get a handle on electronic waste. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Keep Your Colon Clean
A weak, irritated, and congested large intestine becomes a breeding place for bacteria that are simply doing their job—decomposing potentially hazardous waste material. As a side effect of their life-saving activities, the microbes produce poisonous substances. Some of these toxins produced by the bacteria enter the blood, which sends
? 130 ? them straight to the liver. Constant exposure of the liver cells to these toxins impairs their performance and reduces bile secretion. This leads to a further disruption of digestive functions. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Surprisingly, studies show that your risk of getting cancer from exposure to chemicals in the water and air in your home is actually greater than your risk from exposure to the same chemicals in a hazardous waste site. |
Devra Davis
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 They needed to go into an official hazardous waste disposal site, with all sorts of added costs and protections. Instead of doing this, the water district sent the clogged filters back up to the plant, where they were burned up in the ovens at night."
Lucas and her family could smell when something strange went on. "We lived right next to the mills. At night, the odors would be the worst, because they would let things out then that they didn't want you to see. |
David Steinman
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| This represents a great step forward for 'green chemistry,' reducing potentially hazardous waste through smarter production," the Nobel committee said.14'15 "Metathesis is an example of how important basic science has been applied for the benefit of man, society, and the environment."
After the safety movie, we drove to the NatureWorlcs building in one corner, passing corn silos that looked like giant scarecrows. I saw distillation towers rising from the 85-mil-lion-gallon-per-year ethanol production facility. |
Devra Davis
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| The legislative mandates, policies and programs of the federal and state agencies that currently manage hazardous waste sites are inadequate to the task of protecting public health. The distribution and frequency of exposures of specific populations near specific hazardous-waste sites cannot be ascertained, because the needed data have not been gathered. Our report indicates that the nation is not adequately identifying, assessing, or ranking hazardous-waste site exposures and their potential effects on public health. |
| A national list of the priority hazardous waste sites was generated, setting in motion a process whereby those companies with the most money left would pay to fix up past harms. But what happens when the problem doesn't fall within narrow boundaries but extends through an entire river basin or across major parts of a city? |
| In 1978 a twenty-year-old truck driver named Kirtley Jackson dumped a truck full of hazardous waste directly into an open pit that ran into the bayou. That's what people did back then. Nobody can be sure what happened. Perhaps he had disposed of one of the materials known to burst into flames or release toxic gases when it hits water. Maybe he combined chlorine bleach with ammonia, releasing chlorine gas. Whatever it was, something in the wastes he dumped reacted with those already in the pit and Jackson was overcome. He died instantly. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Treat it as hazardous waste and contact your local sanitation department for information on how to dispose of it.
Outside utility poles, fences, and some play equipment can also contain the wood preservatives pentachlorophenol (penta or PCP) and creosote as well as arsenic. These substances are ranked among the most potent cancer agents, promoters of birth defects and reproductive problems, and nervous system toxicants. They contain chemicals that in other contexts are labeled hazardous waste because of the contaminants that are found in them. |
David Steinman
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| Hermann Miller has designated the year 2020 as their deadline to achieve a range of sustainability targets, including zero landfill and zero hazardous waste generation. www.hermannmiller.com
Ikea
You'll be happy to know that you don't have to break the bank, or your commitment to shopping green, to furnish your home. Ikea, the Swedish-based affordable furnishings superstore, has established itself as a leader in the green movement. |
Alex Steffen
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 Stamets, the king of this far-out science, has demonstrated that the magic worked by the spores of a few fungi can transform a heap of hazardous waste into a heap of lush greenery—that a vibrant ecosystem can be created anew by letting mushrooms eat up toxins and fertilize soil.
As biological filters, mushrooms work extremely effectively, because they are, by their very nature, decomposing agents. |
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