Whenever they do burn waste, it's not really destroyed-it's reduced to ash in a more concentrated form. All this dangerous dioxin is coming out of the stack. By putting pollution control devices on the machinery. But the dioxin has to go somewhere, so it ends up in the ash. So you're not really reducing the pollution, you're shifting it to another place.
People have to understand that.
In a lot of cases, it has changed to something more toxic than what was put into the incinerator to be destroyed in the first place. Plus you have all this ash, where roughly 50 percent of what's brought in has to be hauled off site and deposited in a toxic waste landfill. It's got all of these heavy metals, including everything all those devices pulled out of the air. There have been a couple of valve failures, and the school wasn't even notified. And that's pretty scary.