Say No To Incineration Sign Campaign

Thanks to CAW DREC for purchasing 100 new signs for DEW, DWC and those citizens who would like to display one at upcoming rallies, on their lawn (in warmer weather!), in a window or a business. Please contact Dave Renaud (see contact info below) to purchase one or more signs. This will help us to raise funds to continue the fight as well as showing politicians how we feel about the proposed incinerator that is being rushed through as quickly as they possibly can, without having proper information before making milestone decisions.

www.durhamenvironmentwatch.org

New "Say No To Incineration" signs now available for sale:

The latest batch of "Say No to Incineration" signs are in. They have the same graphics as the previous one's but with more vivid colours. They have been done on corplast (18" X 24") with a vinyl decal instead of paint. They will last longer than the 1st ones. The Vendor told me that these signs have a value of approximately $30 each. He gave us an extremely good price.

CAW Durham Regional Environment Council wants to sell them for $10 each. The additional money made will help us to continue to battle the Incinerator.

If we sell out we'll order more.

Please do what you can to sell these sign for us. Take them to public events or where ever you can sell them. The more exposure the better for us all.

Please distribute to you e-mail lists. Call for the quantity you need.

Dave Renaud
President, CAW Durham Regional Environment Council

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Message from Buzz Hargrove

EMERGENCY RESOLUTION NO. 1                                           DECEMBER 2007

WHEREAS   building a waste incinerator encourages the building of more waste incinerators as they need a minimum amount of rubbish to operate.  To meet demand, local authorities are abandoning recycling and waste reduction plants; and

WHEREAS   even incinerators that generate electricity aren’t an energy-saving option.  The energy used to produce the product will get lost anyway and only a fraction of the intrinsic energy content of the materials will be recovered.  Recycling saves far more energy because it means making less new things from raw materials; and

WHEREAS   one of the most insidious aspects of incineration is the entirely new and highly toxic chemicals that can be formed during the combustion process.  When fragments of partially burned waste chemicals recombine within incinerator furnaces, smokestacks and/or pollution control devices, hundred, even thousands, of new substances are created, many of which are more toxic than the original waste itself, during the combustion process; and

WHEREAS   waste incinerators cause pollution, a wide variety of adverse health effects including cancer, respiratory disease, disruption of the endocrine system and congenital birth defects, according to scientific studies, surveys by community groups and local physicians.  Studies indicate that distant populations can be exposed to pollution from incinerators by ingesting contaminated plant or animal products.  The costs to society of these adverse health effects are rarely included in economic analyses and are indeed difficult to quantify but should not be ignored; and

WHEREAS   incineration actually perpetuates the use of landfills because of the large quantities of leftover ash produced by incinerators.  It is estimated that for every three tons of waste that is incinerated, one ton of ash is generated.  And, this ash is very toxic, containing concentrated amounts of heavy metals and dioxins which, when buried, will eventually leach into the soil, potentially polluting groundwater; and

WHEREAS   the CAW Campaign for Extended Producer Responsibility will suffer negative impacts due to incinerators taking away the incentive and pressure for corporations to redesign their products and packaging to reduce toxics and conserve resources.  On the other hand, community efforts into waste separation reuse and repair, recycling and composting can create more jobs, both in the handling of the waste and in secondary industries using recovered material; and

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that CAW Local 1520 reaffirms its position of opposition to the principle of waste incineration; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution be forwarded to CAW Council for support.

Respectfully Submitted By
CAW Local 1520 and the CAW Resolutions Committee
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