important contribution to the proper management of waste Patrizia Gentilini, oncologist, President of the ISDE
Forlì (International Society of Doctors for Environment). In this paper, it shows the serious damage, established at international scientific waste incinerators that produce human health.
Talk waste management and impacts of incineration on health is, in the light of the resurgence of the waste in the Campania region and the preliminary results of the study Moniter about the reproductive outcomes in populations living near incinerators of 8 of our region, most current than ever.
Concerning the first point it is not surprising because, like any good doctor knows (or should know ...), if a disease is not addressed by removing the causes and applying the right treatment sooner or later will recur: Naples nothing has been done with regard to the treatment of wet or recycling of materials recovered, as surprising that the emergence of recurrence?
About the study Moniter, as noted by the President of the Medical Doctor of Bologna. Pizza, participating in the study, recently presented the results about the reproductive outcomes are not reassuring as we would like to believe. From these data is in fact a statistically significant increase in risk of preterm delivery (32-36 weeks) varies from + 18% to + 30% + 69% related to the level of exposure and an increase risk of birth before 32 weeks, increasing with increasing exposure from + 29% to almost 130%, not to be overlooked also the reporting of risk of birth of children with low weight for gestational age: a confirmation of the alarm about the "folly" of waste incineration, as it had to define the Prof. Tomatis here in Forlì in 2005.
We know that thousands of substances, including dozens of carcinogens come from these plants and that even the best systems can not keep killing the ultrafine particles, then why insist when these poisons can do absolutely live without?
The words of Professor David Kriebel of the Department of Health and Environment Massachussets sono a questo proposito esemplari. Kriebel, ha commentato un ultimo recentissimo studio - pubblicato sulla rivista Occup Environ Med - condotto da ricercatori dell’Università di Lione in una area in cui sono attivi 21 inceneritori, che ha evidenziato su 304 neonati con gravi difetti all’apparto genitale rischi statisticamente significativi (fino a quasi sei volte l’atteso!) correlati all’esposizione alle diossine emesse dagli inceneritori.
Queste le parole del Prof Kriebel: “ Lo studio.. suscita serie preoccupazioni in relazione ai rischi per la salute dovuti alle emissioni di impianti urbani di incenerimento waste. This fact, combined with evidence of other adverse effects of this technology, would in itself be decisive in the choice of waste management. In fact, apart from being very dangerous to health, these facilities :
1) cause the production of toxic ash and slag, however, disposed of,
2) contribute to global warming;
3) prevent the waste reduction and recycling, as once these expensive facilities were built, managers want to have a guaranteed source of waste continues to feed them. "
As more and more responsibility for confirming the crucial role which exposure to pollutants, especially in the early stages of life, onset of disease too often incurable ( tumors, endocrine diseases metabolic, neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's) will devastate the lives of many people and their families, we should stop substances that enter the environment from air, water from the food end in our body, starting with all that is preventable or even is completely useless
As Doctors for the Environment we have repeatedly expressed very clearly our absolute opposition to this practice, not only by the risk that it health of populations, but also because it counteracts and prevents the realization of proper waste management sector, which was the first thing we should learn to reduce and then re-enter the recycling materials recovered in production cycles.
Achieving this is not utopia, but a reality already widely tested and implemented.
Only under For example, you may sue the City Award winner for Best Legambiente 2010 Waste Management, the City of Ponte nelle Alpi, which with the doorstep collection and recycling of collaborating with the Center for the recovery Vedelago materials, has managed in just two years to reduce their waste as much 's 88.4%, while reducing the cost for disposal by € 475,000 in 2007 to just € 56,136 in 2009!
The meeting of 23 Minutes that will draw the businesswoman Carla Poli, who directs the Center for Recycling just quoted - awarded for innovation in Europe technology in the recovery of the subject - and an administrator - Manuela Ruggeri - who managed to take off to collect door to door in a municipality of the Province of Bologna (where, as here, by Hera) therefore represents an important opportunity for ; see how this is possible and how we can transform the waste management problem RESOURCE. The start of the harvest home in Forlì and, hopefully, opening a recycling center is the first, necessary step to see the fall waste to the incinerator and at the same time, help to preserve, at least for the future The health of our children.
Patrizia Gentilini-President ISDE-Forlì November 19 2010
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