Proposed Incinerator Site in Durham Region, Ontario-Facts

Here's a video concerning the proposed incinerator site in Durham, Ontario, Canada, featuring Paul-André Larose, Ph.D.
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There are considerations to be made before making a commitment to building an incinerator, and Paul-Andre presents those considerations briefly in this video.

For more information about incineration please visit http://www.durhamenvironmentwatch.org/incineration.htm

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• clarington
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[envirosponsible]

Wow darren, you were off to a solid start there-then you lost me with the white trash comment. Your elitist attitude is just as troubling to me as the anti-immigration comment. It's the "us" and "them" mentality that brought about our challenges with waste and environment. This is OUR earth, and pollution doesn't adhere to boundries. Chad

[envirosponsible]

I think this issue goes beyond immigration policies, though I agree curbing consumerism is a vital key to the solution.

[bboots100]

@envirosponsible You are so on the mark. This our Earth and the responsibility of all.

[bboots100]

Incinerators are just not a valid answer to waste management. Better and bigger recycling programs are what is needed and this is where our government needs to put their money. My municipality has expanded it's recycling program and I am amazed at how much less garage bag waste our household is producing. But it must go farther. Countries like Germany have had tremendous success with recycling and reusing waste and we should be following their example. The disposable mentality must go!

[jtjjbannie]

A wise man indeed.

[digiroj]

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[darren7678]

My comment IS true though isn't it! Only exception is West Pickering straddling the rouge & all of East Toronto (Meadowvale/Port Union/West Rouge) which has a high abundance of caucasian professionals! Still glad I live in Richmond hill though!

[KREATIVNML]

You are SO right! When I heard they were thinking about incineration last August, I immediately put my house up for sale and got the HELL outta there! It was bad enough I always felt outta place among all the beer-drinking, white trash bastards, but the coming incinerator was the last straw. I now live in York region.

[harryfodder]

They will be filtering the exhaust to get all the particles out. Your right it doesn't dissapear, but would you rather place it in a landfill where it can poison leachate, get to the aquifer and then end up in our lakes over the course of however many years it takes?

I believe that anyone who is opposed to the incinerator and that uses and throws out things such as batteries are hypocrites. Until we can find a solution that is better than incinerating, I think we should just stop complaining.

[peppeddu]

This is going to be bigger than the tobacco mess. Thousands and thousands of people will have to die before the politicians all over realizes that "hey, this thing is toxic!"

[darren7678]

Don't blame it on the immigrants.