[Durham INC] FYI: Burlington Times-News: Local documentary will raise air quality concerns

[Melissa Rooney]

Please see below, regarding the medical waste incinerator on Graham-Haw River 
border. And please forward this to anyone you know who lives in this area, so 
they are aware of what's going on.
Melissa (Rooney)



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Subject: [ssaninfo] Burlington Times-News: Local documentary will raise air 
quality concerns

 
*Dear Friends and Neighbors: Please consider posting a comment to this page. 
Also, please consider sending a tax-deductible contribution to help pay for a 
full-page ad c/o our chapter Clean Air Now (CAN) announcing the public hearing 
re: new rules for medical waste incinerators in NC. The ad will be published in 
this Sunday’s edition of the Burlington  Times-News. Send your check to: Heather 
Bjork, CAN,  216 Fieldstone Dr. , Burlington ,  NC 27215-4637 . Your 
contribution will go towards cleaner air for NC – and especially for Alamance 
and Mecklenburg   Counties , home to three of NC’s medical waste incinerators 
which are polluting our air and environment. Please share this article with your 
lists, friends and family members – and please come to the public hearing on 
September 7, 2010, in  Greensboro , to voice your support of the 2012 date for 
all medical waste incinerators in NC to come into compliance with the new and 
more protective EPA air quality standards. 

http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/documentary-36424-air-group.html
Local documentary will raise air quality concern, group hopesAugust 26, 2010 
5:08 PM
Michael D. Abernethy / Times-News 
Gearing up for a Sept. 7 public hearing on air quality standards, an 
environmental group will show a locally produced documentary about medical waste 
incineration practices at four locations next week.
The documentary, “Burning Issues in Medical Waste Incineration,” focuses on 
possible impacts of Stericycle Inc.’s waste incinerator, located on the  
Graham-Haw  River border. The documentary uses interviews with residents and 
scientists about the dangers of and alternatives to medical waste incineration.
The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League hopes the documentary will spark 
questions and encourage people to attend a state hearing on medical waste 
incineration at UNC-Greensboro on Sept. 7, says Sue Dayton, the league’s N.C. 
Healthy Communities director. The state will hear comments on the implementation 
of new Environmental Protection Agency rules regarding air quality, which are 
anticipated to go into effect statewide in 2014. The new rules require stricter 
emissions standards for heavy metals and other potentially toxic substances.
In response to the impending renewal of Stericycle Inc.’s state incineration 
permit, the league has lobbied local elected bodies to support and pass a 
resolution asking the state to implement the EPA rules in 2012. The city of  
Graham and the Alamance County Board of Commissioners declined to pass the 
resolution. The town of Haw  River , the city of Mebane  and the Orange County 
Board of Commissioners passed the resolution. The city of  Burlington has yet to 
be presented with the resolution.
The league and other concerned parties worry that medical waste incineration 
releases toxins into the air and water, affecting wildlife, food sources and 
public health. The group cites cancer statistics and warns of other health risks 
for developing fetuses, infants, children and the elderly. They want companies 
like Stericycle to use newer and cleaner practices for medical waste disposal, 
such as autoclaves.
The short documentary was produced several years ago by Sanford Lewis, 
Massachusetts-based attorney for Health Care Without Harm — an international 
group of medical professionals, health care establishments and environmental and 
other groups.
Daytonsays the league will follow the film with a discussion of current 
emissions standards versus the updated emissions standards and how they would 
improve air quality in Alamance and surrounding counties.
The film will be shown Monday at 7 p.m. at the Upper Chatham Lower Alamance 
Community Center (the old Cornucopia building), 3 miles south of Eli Whitney on 
N.C. 87 south.; Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Mebane Public Library, 101 S. First St., 
Mebane; Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the General Store Café, 39 West St., Pittsboro; 
and Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. at Graham Public Library, 211 South Main St., Graham.
For more information contact Sue Dayton at 336-525-2003or by e-mail at 
sdayton at swcp.com.


      
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