Manufacturing Industry
STUDY SAYS PVC NOT A MAJOR DIOX IN PRODUCER.
Plastics News, September, 1998 by STAFF, Steve Toloken PLASTICS NEWS
WASHINGTON -- A new vinyl industry study says PVC manufacturing produces at most 1 percent of the toxin dioxin released into the environment, countering claims that PVC production accounts for significant dioxin releases. The Vinyl Institute study comes as the Environmental Protection Agency is completing an inventory of dioxin in the United States, part of a long-term reassessment of dioxin's health and exposure effects.
The VI study, delivered to EPA Aug. 10, found that PVC manufacturing most likely produces about 24.3 grams of dioxin a year, with that amount falling to 16 grams if waste that is landfilled is not counted. About 3,000 grams of dioxin are produced in the United States each year. That compares with a 1993 Greenpeace estimate of between...
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