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Pat Costner, and Paul Johnston, Incineration and Human Health—State of Knowledge of the Impacts of Waste Incinerators on Human Health, Greenpeace Research Laboratories, University of Exeter, 2001; Jeremy Thompson and Honor Anthony, The Health Effects of Waste Incinerators: 4th Report, British Society for Ecological Medicine, 2006 (ecomed.org.uk/publications/reports/the-health-effects-of-waste-incinerators); M. Franchini, M. Rial, E. Buiatti, and F. Bianchi, “Health effects of exposure to waste incinerator emissions: A review of epidemiological studies,” Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità, vol. 40, no. 1, 2004, pp. 101–15; N. Floret, E. Lucot, P. M. Badot, et al., “A municipal solid waste incinerator as the single dominant point source of PCDD/Fs in an area of increased non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma incidence,” Chemosphere vol. 68, no. 8, 2007, pp.1419–26; T. Tango, T. Fujita, T. Tanihata, et al., “Risk of adverse reproductive outcomes associated with proximity to municipal solid waste incinerators with high dioxin emission levels in Japan,” Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 14, no. 3, 2004, pp. 83–93.

95. Paul Connett, from his white paper “Waste Management as if the Future Mattered,” 1990.

96. Personal correspondence with Paul Connett, June 2008.

97. Personal correspondence with Mike Ewall, May 2009.

98. Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives/Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance website: no-burn.org.

99. “Incinerators in Disguise,” Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives/Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance (no-burn.org/article.php?list=type&type=132).

100. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, eGRID 2000 database, cited in Zero Waste for Zero Warming: GAIA’s Statement of Concern on Waste and Climate Change, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives/Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance, December 2008 (no-burn.org/article.php?id=567).

101. Sherry Greenfield, “Trip to PA convinces Jenkins that Frederick should build incinerator,” Gazette.net, May 20, 2009 (gazette.net/stories/05202009/

frednew174253_32537.shtml).

102. Brenda Platt, Resources up in Flames, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives/Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance, April 2004, p. 12 (no-burn.org/downloads/Resources up in Flames.pdf).

103. Wasting and Recycling in the United States, Grass Roots Recycling Network, 2000 (grrn.org/order/w2kinfo.html).

104. Information packet from a visit to the Davis Street Transfer Center in May 2009, compared to the data provided in Greenfield, “Trip to PA convinces Jenkins that Frederick should build incinerator.”

105. Platt, Resources up in Flames, p. 14.

106. T. Rand, J. Haukohl, and U. Marxen, Municipal Solid Waste Incineration: Requirements for a Successful Project, World Bank technical paper no. 462, The World Bank, June 2000, p. 25.

107. Personal correspondence with Paul Connett, June 2008.

108. “What is TURA,” Toxics Use Reduction Institute (turi.org/turadata/what_is_tura).

109. Jay Pateakos, “‘Green’ Light: City company recognized for helping environment,” The Herald News, June 8, 2009 (heraldnews.com/homepage/x313680023/Green-light).

110. Ken Geiser and Joel Tickner, “When haste makes toxic waste,” The Boston Globe, July 14, 2009 (boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/

oped/articles/2009/07/14/when_haste_

makes_toxic_waste/).

111. “A Basic Guide to Exporting—International Legal Considerations,” Unz and Co. (unzco.com/basicguide/c9.html).

112. Halina Ward, “Corporate accountability in search of a treaty?” briefing paper, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, May 2002 (chathamhouse.org.uk/files/3033_corporate

_accountability_insights.pdf).

113. “Thor Chemicals and Mercury Exposure in Cato-Ridge, South Africa” (umich.edu/~snre492/Jones/thorchem.htm), using data from the series of articles by Bill Lambrecht for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch between 1989 and 1994.

114. Ibid.

115. Ibid.

116. “A Thor Chronology,” groundWork, vol. 9, no. 3, September 2007 (groundwork.org.za/Newsletters/September2007.pdf).

117. “South Africa: Chemical cleanup begins,” Pambazuka News, iss. 168, August 5, 2004