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CAMPAIGN TIPS
Seven Important Campaign Tips
towards Clean Production
When you are faced with a proposal
for a HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATOR you need to ask WHY the
hazardous waste is generated in the first place. Clean manufacturing
does not generate incinerable waste. These are the questions
that need to be asked to get to the real root of the problem.
If we stop an ncinerator, without promoting Clean Production,
we are sure to see more incinerator proposals in the future.
1. WHY is the incinerator
needed at all? What reasons do your government or industries
give for the incinerator's need?
2. WHO will generate
the waste to be burned? What companies?
3. WHAT process waste
streams will be generated? From what manufacturing sectors?
Also are any discarded PRODUCTS, like used batteries, plastics,
or tyres, burned in hazardous waste incinerators in your country?
4. PLANNING. Have
these companies done a pollution prevention audit and plan?
(Sometimes called a toxics use reduction or cleaner production
plan) Note: ISO14000 is NOT the same as a mandatory pollution
prevention or cleaner production plan.
5. PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION.
If yes, do you have access to these company plans?
Do you have access to information about process waste streams
and products that are being sent to an incinerator (or that
will be sent to a proposed hazardous waste incinerator)?
6. REGULATIONS. If
companies have not done a mandatory cleaner production plan,
why not? Each company needs to have an ongoing programme to
replace toxic chemicals use with safer substitutes and such
planning needs to be mandatory.
7. GOVERNMENT POLICY.
Does the government support Cleaner Production planning or
does it support incineration? In other words where does government
money go - to help industry become clean and to
protect workers and communities? Or does it assume the future
needs to be toxic and so incinerators need to handle these
ongoing waste streams?
For more information on Clean Production,
see the Citizens' Guide to Clean Production available online
at: www.uml.edu/centers/lcsp
If you can't access this on line, please contact the GAIA
Secretariat as GAIA has a limited number of copies to distribute.
Also note the CPA website is under construction.
Your answers to these questions will
help Clean Production Action write a Tool Kit against hazardous
waste streams.
Thank you.
Written by Beverly Thorpe, Clean Production
Action, email: bevcpro@aol.com,
Telephone: + 1 (514) 484-8647
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