It provides a handy list of dioxin sources that should be eliminated. Medical waste incinerators are at the top of the list because, according to the EPA's 1994 document, those incinerators produce about 5.1 kilograms of dioxin-like chemicals each year. The agency's current estimate is 0.17 kilograms, a reduction of more than 96 percent. Much of the reduction came from the EPA's utilization of the American Hospital Association's more realistic methods for estimating emissions, and the rest from improvements in incinerators. Quite a list.
Dioxin contains chlorine.
Without chlorine, there is no dioxin. Gibbs recognizes that many people with jobs see environmental bans as a threat to their livelihoods. A charge on chlorine could go to a Superfund to assist workers in the industry to transition into similar paying jobs outside the chlorine industry. In a thorough reading of the second part of the book, the informed reader will pick up many reporting errors. For instance, organized citizen outrage is credited with closing the Columbus, Ohio municipal incinerator.