Pubblichiamo la lettera aperta che Gianni Vantaggi, medico di famiglia e referente ISDE per l'Umbria, ha scritto all'assessore all'ambiente Bottini.
"Gentile Assessore Bottini,
la coincidenza che l’Umbria sia la patria di San Francesco, negli anni, ha determinato many environmental initiatives in our region.
It 's possible that our Earth can not remain the forerunner of the Regions of Italy where the "Focus On Brother" by Francesco not to become (what it is in other regions) that enemy, as it is, in 'hell of all those unhealthy combustion processes of the industries first class (incinerators and cement ...), resulting in the transformation of substances (in itself harmless) as waste, extremely hazardous substances such as dioxins, furans, polychlorinated biphenyls, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons , heavy metals?
The incinerator di Spittellau (Vienna) che so, con quello di Monaco, essere stato oggetto di una sua visita, certamente sa che è un inceneritore costruito nel 1969, vicino ad un ospedale, per “sfruttarne” il calore prodotto (teleriscaldamento). A quei tempi nessuno pensava agli effetti deleteri legati all’incenerimento. Ma oggi, secondo lei, i Viennesi rifarebbero la stessa scelta?
E’ sicuro che l’inceneritore di Vienna è destinato ad esaurire la sua funzione entro 20 anni. Il periodo necessario per recuperare i costi di: costruzione, manutenzione e ammodernamento.
Altri dati: a Spittellau si inceneriscono about 250,000 ton / year of waste (basically "only" 10% of what remains of the collection in Vienna, more than 1,600,000 inhabitants, reaches 90%).
perfectly within the parameters of the law , the beautiful fireplace designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, every day emits about 8 kg of powder and 122 million picograms of dioxin , those are enough to cover the tolerable daily dose of 870,000 Viennese . [ http://federicovalerio.splinder
Obviously the incinerator Spittelau respects the law of conservation of mass (Lavoisier law), so for each tonne of waste "incinerator " produces 280 pounds of solid waste that, in covered wagons, are sent to waste treatment plant Rinterzelt. Here, after further processing (recovery of iron, about 24 pounds per ton of waste treated), the bottom ash are mixed with cement and used to build retaining walls of the solid waste landfill Vienna . So if anyone still believes that the "thermo" dispose of the landfill, if he did not know, now know that NOT 'TRUE NEED landfills and incineration are all right and not only in Vienna but also in Copenhagen, in Brescia ...
really do not know what else you should do: committees, citizens, associations, and I am as a reference for the Umbria region of Doctors for the Environment, to try to become the Umbria the truth " green heart "of Italy.
certainly knows the concerns of the people and knows me better than the conclusions dell’ottimo documento della Regione: “ La Geografia della mortalità in Umbria. 1978-2005 ” dove a pag 37 si conclude che lo studio ”… ha evidenziato, per specifiche cause di morte, situazioni a più alto rischio, che vale la pena di approfondire, nei comuni del nord della Regione, della Valnerina …”
Se permette, da tecnico della salute (da oltre 31 anni sono medico di famiglia) vorrei sottoporre alla sua attenzione alcune considerazioni:
- Dall’Art.15 della Dichiarazione di RIO giugno 1992 (16 anni fa!), ratificato dall’ Unione European Union: "When an activity creates opportunities to do harm to health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken, even if some cause-effect relationships are not established with certainty from science "
- From the words of Professor Lorenzo Tomatis (founder and director of the IARC in Lyon from 1981 to 1994): "... adopt the Precautionary Principle and the Responsibility also means accepting the duty to inform, to prevent ' concealment of information about possible risks, prevent consider the 'entire species umana come un insieme di cavie sulle quali sperimentare tutto quanto è in grado di inventare il progresso tecnologico ...
… Invece di accettare una società che sta diventando sempre meno democratica, in cui le scelte sfuggono ormai completamente agli individui e domina il Principio della crescita economica ad ogni costo, si può pensare ad uno sviluppo che si attui sui principi di Precauzione e Responsabilità, dando priorità alla qualità della vita e all' equità sociale e ponendo il mantenimento della Salute al di sopra dell' interesse economico ".
The solution of incineration NOT FIX and will never solve the problem of waste , as it has not solved anywhere else in the world. I say this with force, because if the incinerator had solved the waste problem, as ever: Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other European countries, even the United States and Israel strongly point to the collection, and can push more implement curbside collection? And because these countries have understood that the waste is THE new resource on which to invest for obtaining raw materials to remarket Umbria-l'Italia, does not? ( Italy is the 3 rd buyer of raw materials recovered from waste that is so-called second )
repeat: the matter and therefore the WASTE not eliminate , not disappear, and turns them into the incinerator only, and not into something harmless, but in essence, OTHER as: Dioxins, Furans , polychlorinated biphenyls , Heavy metals . The joke is that to make it hazardous waste you spend too many millions of euro (the cost of an incinerator? How many jobs to be?) Why Italy is the only country in the world where it rewards those who burning waste? In the rest of the world who incinerates the waste and pay very salty!
Why media NEVER talk about those experiences that are expensive, but much less of an incinerator and not emit hazardous to health ? Reality already operating in some regions of Italy but completely ignored :
Bolzano has already operate a system that uses the process and produces Anaerobic Digestion Biogas-Methane: 1,200,000 cubic meters / year ( I'm thinking the "precious" sewage Bettona !).
Treviso: Vedelago Recycling Center ( 58 employees, the incinerator of Brescia has 77) where, with the University of Padua, have developed a system , all Italian, based on extrusion friction ; system (much less expensive than incineration) that are to buy from abroad (Korea, Germany etc.) but ignored by many so-called "experts" Italian . And to think that Vedelago recycle, all that dry material, since a few years ago irriciclabile and ended up in landfill or incinerator. Now that material becomes synthetic sand, precious to the building or the construction of outdoor furniture and artifacts. No combustion, no landfill! No harmful emissions.
To Finally I enclose a copy of the email and its attachments that I sent on May 17 2008 to inform as well as the experience of Treviso, which also speaks of the Sun 24 Recycling Center Vedelago. On that occasion I noticed with delight that his e-mail address is: parlocon @lambertobottini.it . It seemed a good omen, was wrong?.
John Benefits - Family Doctor and contact ISDE Umbria "
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