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How You Can Help Reduce Air Pollution
This type of uncontrolled burning is extremely polluting, especially when many people are doing it. When trash is burned incompletely and at ...
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Recycling Works, Here's How!, How do I Recycle?
Another way to reduce household trash is by creating less trash in the first place, a process known as source reduction. Here are a ... the past, incinerators would just burn trash, but today's incinerators, called resource recovery or waste-to-energy facilities, recover the energy from the burning trash to make steam and/or electricity. Recycling ...
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EIA Kids Page - Primer on Solid Waste
By the late 1800s, Europeans were even burning their waste and using the energy from it to produce ... Example: Using old newpapers to make egg cartons. Waste-to-Energy: Burning trash to produce steam and electricity. Landfilling: Burying waste when it ... ’t matter. It is the volume of the trash that is important, not how much the trash weighs. As one researcher said, “Landfills ...
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Cleaner Burning
CONTACT Bobbie Bratz, 805.455.6403 Cleaner Fireplace Burning: Top Five Tips SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CA — The Santa Barbara ... for cleaner fireplace burning for improved safety and cleaner air. “Smoke is harmful for our lungs. When people burn trash, or make ... regular maintenance by a professional chimney sweep. 2. Don’t burn trash. Burning trash can cause toxic chemicals to go into the air, and ...
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Cleaner Fireplace Burning
Schedule regular maintenance by a professional chimney sweep. Don’t burn trash. Burning trash can cause toxic chemicals to go into the air, and into your lungs. Don’t ... information, see fires.htm on this website, or download the California Air Resources Board "Wood Burning Handbook" (PDF file) here: http://www.arb.ca.gov/cap/handbooks/wood_burning_handbook.pdf. Return to ...
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Alternatives to Burning
Burn in Whitman County Burn barrels: English language Burn Barrels: A Burning Health Problem Top Five Reasons to Stop Burning Trash in Burn Barrels En Español Barriles para quemar: Un problema para la salud Cinco Razones para Dejar de Quemar Basura en un Barril Burn permits: Outdoor Burning Permits Home ...
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Basic Information | Backyard Burning | Wastes | US EPA
EPA Home Wastes Backyard Burning Basic Information Basic Information Backyard burning refers to the burning of household trash by residents on their own property. Trash typically burned can include paper, ... produced when waste is burned. Significantly higher levels of dioxins are created by burning trash in burn barrels than in municipal incinerators. Household burn barrels receive limited oxygen ...
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Human Health | Backyard Burning | Wastes | US EPA
Burning | Wastes | US EPA Jump to main content. Backyard Burning Recent Additions | Contact Us Search: All EPA This Area You are here: EPA Home Wastes Backyard Burning Human Health Human Health Burning trash ... burning of household trash (backyard burning). Studies have shown that only small amounts of chlorinated materials in waste are required to support dioxin formation when burning waste ...
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Variable-Rate Trash Collection
Any municipality starting a variable-rate system should evaluate and update burning and dumping ordinances, and be prepared to ... to pick up scattered debris and/or suggest that residents set out bags in trash cans. To deal with illegal disposal, provide information on grasscycling, composting and mulching. Also, ...
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GLRC Toxic Pollutants Initiative Update - October 2007
Education about environmental concerns associated with trash burning; Information on infrastructure and alternatives to burning in communities; and Tools to strengthen burning ordinances and support greater compliance ... Basin outcomes will include: number of ordinances banning burning, trash disposal alternatives implemented, and reductions in the practice of burning garbage. Progress to Date IL/IN ...
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