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Burning Rubber: Tire Incineration
With billions of discarded tires sitting in landfills, why not burn them for fuel? Articles in this collection address the pollution hazards from burning tires in cement kilns and other facilities and describe what some communities have done to address the problems posed by tire incineration.
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Treading New Ground...Alternatives to Tire Incineration
A collection of articles and ideas to promote recycling and reuse of old tires. Gives helpful alternatives to tire burning.
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Tire Fires
A collection of news clips discussing the hazards and health threats created by fires at tire dumps and storage facilities.
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Best of Science, Vol. 1 & 2
A collection of science features from Everyone’s Backyard. Includes water testing, landfills, incineration, health surveys, health effects, dioxin, recycling, sludge, testing and more.
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Environmental Testing
You think you are facing an environmental health threat and you want the area around your home tested. But you don't know what you need, where to look, or what to look for. This newly revised handbook tells you where to start. Learn how to get proper testing of your water, air, soil, and more.
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How Clean is Clean?
This guidebook de-mystifies the technical debate over cleanup standards for contaminated sites. This resource covers the most effective grassroots strategies to win the best—not the cheapest—cleanup.
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Safety Plans: What You Need to Know
After the cleanup is negotiated the next step is ensuring that the remediation job doesn’t expose your community to more danger. This manual explains how to get a safe cleanup.
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Pesticides in Your Community
Wondering what is sprayed on the food you eat and what affects it may have on you and your children? How do pesticides affect our groundwater? This guidebook contains the latest information on pesticides and their usage in the U.S.
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Cement Kilns
A fact pack of articles and news clips on how industry is using kilns to burn hazardous waste, a deceptive practice called “sham recycling!”
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Facility Siting Questions
Regardless of the type of facility you are fighting, you must ask these key questions. Questions relate to a variety of topics including groundwater tables, transportation routes, and the economies of facilities. Imagine the reaction of the agency or corporation who must answer these questions that they never thought you would ask!
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Construction and Demolition Debris Landfills
Contains excerpts from technical reports on the toxic substances in C & D landfills, news clips on how communities have addressed the health threat these landfills pose, and articles on new C & D recycling programs.
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The Buried Truth: Landfill Failures
The articles in this fact pack explain what landfills are and why they fail, what toxins are being released into our air, soil, and water from landfills, and what health problems are linked to living near landfills.
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Land Disposal: The Dinosaur of Disposal Methods
This fact pack describes the “state of the art” facility, providing facts, case studies and arguments related to the how and why of landfill failures and leaks. This resource also provides case histories of such problems and is a great resource for illustrating the dangers of using land disposal for waste.
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Land Farming Sludge
Municipal sludge is being touted as a miracle fertilizer and is being given to farmers and used to “reclaim” strip-mined land. Actually, sludge is a toxic stew of heavy metals, pesticides and other extremely hazardous substances. This compilation of news clips, articles and scientific papers tells exactly what is found in sludge and how communities are dealing with this issue.
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Power Lines
A fact pack of the electromagnetic health effects of power lines, appliances and other electromagnetic sources.
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Drinking Water: An Endangered Resource
How safe is your drinking water? What is commonly found in drinking water and where does it come from? This guidebook is a must for all people who want to protect their drinking water.
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Water Filters
Concerned with the poor taste and foul odors in your water? As a result many people are turning to water filters as a means of protection. How do you know what filter to buy? This guidebook details the pros and cons of various water filtration systems.
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Waste Transfer Stations
These sites are noisy, ugly and stinky! Transfer stations are a part of the polluter’s secret plan to maintain their profits from their dump and burn practices. This fact pack is a collection of news clips and articles on the essentials of waste transfer stations.
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Cellular Phone Towers
Do cellular phone towers pose a threat from long-term exposure to electromagnetic radiation? This newly updated fact pack provides you with the latest information and related articles on the dangers.
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Composting Municipal Solid Waste and Sludge
Is composting of municipal solid waste an alternative to landfills? This fact pack takes a hard look at this issue and the dangers posed by these solid waste facilities.
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HOG WILD! Hog Farming and Waste
This fact pack provides articles and papers with information on the impact that corporate hog factories have on communities and residents’ health, as well as the issues surrounding the disposal of hog waste.
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RULING THE ROOST! Poultry Waste
This fact pack provides you with articles about the poultry industry and the serious pollution it causes. A must read fact pack if your community is thinking of building one of these plants.
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PVC: Bad News Comes in Three’s. The Poison Plastic, Health Hazards and the Looming Waste Crisis
CHEJ's BE SAFE campaign co-released this report with the Environmental Health Strategy Center. The report documents the health and environmental hazards posed by PVC (polyvinyl chloride) during manufacturing, product use and disposal. It also identifies common household products that may contain PVC and gives tips on how to take action to prevent harm from PVC throughout its lifecycle. Additionally, the report provides detailed estimates of how much PVC waste each state incinerates and deposits in landfills. (89 pages)
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