http://ukwin.org.uk/2010/01/29/iba-banned-from-use-in-highways-projects/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ukwin.org.uk/2010/01/29/iba-banned-from-use-in-highways-projects/comment-page-1/#comment-672 A N Hall Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:57:52 +0000 http://ukwin.org.uk/?p=1543#comment-672 This doesn't surprise me at all. Nobody really knows what is going into incinerators in household and commercial waste, so there can be no control over what comes out in the bottom ash; IBA is not regularly tested. What about household smoke alarms, which are probably being discarded in their thousands by now? Each one contains a tiny amount of radioactive Americium 241, which will either be in IBA, the Flue Gas Residues, or, worse, the dust being emitted by the stack. The EA requires neither the incoming waste nor the emissions to be checked for radioactivity , and the HSE is not interested (I asked). How many domestic consumers know that smoke alarms should be taken to a recycling centre? This doesn’t surprise me at all. Nobody really knows what is going into incinerators in household and commercial waste, so there can be no control over what comes out in the bottom ash; IBA is not regularly tested. What about household smoke alarms, which are probably being discarded in their thousands by now? Each one contains a tiny amount of radioactive Americium 241, which will either be in IBA, the Flue Gas Residues, or, worse, the dust being emitted by the stack. The EA requires neither the incoming waste nor the emissions to be checked for radioactivity , and the HSE is not interested (I asked). How many domestic consumers know that smoke alarms should be taken to a recycling centre?

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