The Impact of Waste Incineration on Human Beings and The Environment

• Authors: Grzegorz Wielgosiński , Agata Targaszewska

Title variants

PL

Oddziaływanie Spalarni Odpadów Na Ludzi I środowisko

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses issues related to the impact of incineration on human health and the environment. The aim of the work is to make a broad overview of the existing literature in this area. The problem was described in the literature based on a number of waste incineration plants studies in both Europe and all around the world. Subjects analyzed in the literature were risks at workplace, both administrative ones and directly related to the process of thermal treatment of waste. These risks result among others from the atmospheric emissions of many pollutants, including most of all polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans, heavy metals and some volatile organic compounds. The results of these studies will be an important argument in the discussion on the possible risks to humans and the environment posed by waste incineration plants and the expediency of building waste incinerators in Poland.

Keywords

EN

waste incineration; waste-to energy; environmental impact; occupational safety and health

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 353-363

Dates

online

8 - 7 - 2014

Contributors

author

Grzegorz Wielgosiński

• Lodz University of Technology, ul. Wólczańska 175, 90-924 Łódź, Poland, phone [phone], fax [phone],

author

Agata Targaszewska

• Lodz University of Technology, ul. Wólczańska 175, 90-924 Łódź, Poland, phone [phone], fax [phone],

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/eces-2014-0027