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GLOBAL PROTESTS AGAINST INCINERATION
SIGNAL DEATH KNELL FOR DEADLY TECHNOLOGY
Biggest day of action ever against incineration
Denpasar, 14 July 2003. More than 235 groups from 62 countries today took action
against waste incineration to serve notice to their governments that time is running
out on the controversial technology despite vigorous attempts by the incineration
industry to repackage their burners as renewable energy or modern thermal systems for
waste disposal.
Bali Fokus as the dynamisator of JALA-Sampah (Jaringan Pengelolaan Sampah)/GarbaNet of
Indonesian NGOs Network, with 25 NGOs member from all over Indonesia, as member of
GAIA, take part in this Global Day Action 2003. Activities which will be done among
others: lauching of the global report on "Waste Incineration: Dying Technology",
introduction of JALA-Sampah/GarbaNet, and comments on Academic Papers of National
Draft on National Waste Management and other national as well as local related issues.
On July 21 until August 21 2003, JALA-Sampah/GarbaNet will be facilitated by
TerraNet/LEAD Indonesia environmental portal, will conduct an electronic conference,
which will be followed by several experts and resource persons and open for interested
public to discuss the Academic Papers of National Draft on National Waste Management
which is currently prepared by the Ministry of Environment office. The electronic
conference objective is to review and provide further recommendations on the Academic
Paper towards a better and more sustainable solutions orientation bill. One of the
recommendation appear in the paper is incinerator as one of the waste termination
methode.
"With growing desperation to ensure the survival of their dying industry, incinerator
pushers are scrambling to repackage and reinvent their technologies using various
forms of greenwashing including referring to incinerators as clean, renewable energy
sources or claiming to have 'new' variations like pyrolysis or gasification for the
same old and discredited process," said Ann Leonard, Co-Coordinator of the Global
Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), which unites over 375 groups and
communities fighting to end wasting and burning, from 77 countries.
The combined and simultaneous protest actions around the world mark the observance of
the 2nd Global Day of Action against Waste Incineration, by far the most massive
demonstration of public opposition to incinerators on a global scale. Spearheaded by
GAIA, the yearly anti-incineration day of action intends to highlight the health,
environmental, economic and social problems associated with waste burning and other
polluting waste management practices, and at the same time promote safe and
sustainable alternatives
for preventing waste and managing society's discards.
GAIA today released the report "Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology," which
explains why incinerators are an unsustainable and obsolete method for dealing with
waste. The GAIA report concludes that incineration is a dying technology. As a waste
treatment technology, it is unreliable and produces a secondary waste stream more
dangerous than the original. As an energy production method, it is inefficient and
wasteful of resources. As an economic development tool, it is a catastrophe, which
drains money out of
local communities and creates scarce and often dangerous jobs.
"Today's actions are clear manifestations of the growing global resistance against
incinerators and other dirty forms of waste disposal. With the possible exception of
nuclear power, perhaps no other technology has stirred up such inflamed defiance from
citizens and communities the world over. For this and other good reasons, governments
around the world should pay heed and start implementing safe and sustainable
alternatives to incineration," said Yuyun Ilham of the JALA-Sampah/GarbaNet.
Public opposition has killed many proposed and existing incinerators worldwide. For
instance, a massive grassroots movement has defeated more than 300 municipal waste
incinerator proposals in the United States in the last 15 years. In Japan, the most
incinerator intensive country, public pressure has resulted in over 500 incinerators
being shut down in recent years. Jurisdictions in 15 countries have passed partial
bans on incineration and one country, the Philippines, has banned all incineration.
Today's actions also coincide with the first day of the Seventh Intergovernmental
Negotiating Committee (INC 7) meeting of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent
Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Geneva. The Convention which has yet to be ratified aims
to eliminate the most persistent toxic substances known to science, including the
cancer-causing dioxins and furans.
The Convention identifies all waste incinerators, including cement kilns burning
hazardous wastes, as major sources of dioxins and furans and polychlorinated biphenyls
or PCBs and recommends the use of substitute techniques to avoid the generation of
these unintentionally produced pollutants. The United Nations Environment Program
(UNEP) reports that incinerators account for 69% of dioxin emissions worldwide.
This year's action surpasses the number of participating groups from last year's
Global Day of Action that drew 126 groups from 54 countries.
NOTE:
The GAIA Report "Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology" is available for free
download at www.no-burn.org The Report discusses the problems with waste incineration
and explains viable alternatives to this outdated method for dealing with waste. The
report further talks about the expanding repudiation of incineration across the globe,
including incinerator bans and moratoria imposed in several places. Neil Tangri,
formerly of Essential Action USA wrote the report for GAIA.
Contacts:
For further informations, contact
Yuyun Ilham
Dynamisator JALA-Sampah/GarbaNet
Kuta Poleng D-6
Jalan Griya Anyar
KUTA 80361 - BALI
Telp. (0361) 759610
Fax. (0361) 766542
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For information on GAIA and the Global Day of Action, please visit
www.no-burn.org
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