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In article <31B48787.40C1@MSG.TI.COM>, Carl Porter <3CAP@MSG.TI.COM> writes:
>Leon Mar wrote:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I'm doing an essay on toxic waste management, though the subject has

> Jess	The solution is a combination of many steps. Finding alternate 
>processes to reduce or elimante production of toxic waste along with 
>finding different methods of de-toxifying the stuff we cannot find a 
>substitute for. There has been research on using electric arc furnaces to 
>incinerate waste and I have heard, not confirmed, that the output is 
>non-hazardous for everthing except radioactive materials. Apparently the 
>temperature and charge reduces the molecules to their atomic components. 
>For radioactive waste, an Integral Fast Reactor can be used to change 
>isotopes into ones that either decay faster, have a less harmful 
>radiation (beta) or are stable.

so far so good.

>	The main problem I can see is that public opinion and politics 
>run enviromental protection agencies instead of sound scientific 
>investigation. 

>CFCs, 

get thee to sci.environment and ask for the ozone hole faq

>acid rain, 

This as a large scale problem is not something that I have seen
proven either way.

>DDT, 

shit, we didn't need all those Eagles and Hawks.  If they can't
adapt as fast as the insects can, tough.

>asbestos are all examples of public 

the methodology of dealing with asbestos has often been flawed
but I have yet to see anything credible that seriously suggested 
that it is a harmless substance.

>opinion being swayed by scientific work that hadn't passed thru the peer 
>review and was found to be flawed at a later date. Education, common 
>sense and rational thinking instead of blind panic would go a long way 
>towards solving our problems. 

>Please read/skim thru "Trashing The Planet" by Dixy Lee Ray, it should 
>point you to areas to look at.

Oh jeezuz, no wonder, if you are interested e-mail me and I will see
if I can find my compendeum of bad science in Dixy Lee Ray books.

(or go over to sci.environment, there are plenty of hard heads who
bash on "religious" environmentalists, Dixy Lee Ray is NOT their hero.)

Robert