Families Against Cancer & Toxics

Mr. Basner:

With regard to your example of water breaking down to its harmless basic elements of oxygen and hydrogen, I have the following comment. Here are some basic elements down to which garbage and trash can be broken: chlorine, lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, bromine, beryllium, chromium, cobalt, fluorine, etc. Look up the toxicity of these elements. They are NOT harmless. One  can't "break down" elements.


Also, talk to a few scientific experts about how one can design a burning or heat chamber that breaks down trash into elemental forms but at the same time prevents chlorine (and to a lesser extent fluorine and bromine) from combining with hydrocarbons and otherwise harmless elements to form extremely lethal substances such as dioxins and furans. It cannot be done.


Find out from independent scientific experts how much trash such a chamber would need to process daily to be profitable for the company -- you'll find that significant hazardous trash importation, which cannot be stopped legally, is on your way.


You're being sold a bill of goods by a company based far from Cochise County that wants to profit mightily from using a pandora's box to turn your community into a toxic wasteland.

Keith Bagwell
Tucson