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How to Shut Down an Incinerator, a Toolkit
The How to Shut Down an Incinerator Toolkit is a resource for communities engaged in an effort to close down an incinerator located in their area. Toolkit factsheets can be downloaded in pdf form and printed and copied for wider distribution.
Table of contents
I. Health Care Without Harm Campaign Information
1. Contact List: Alternative Technologies Work Group
2. Resource List: HCWH Resources for Incinerator Activists
II. Background Information: Science, Technology & Health Hazards of Incineration
3. Dioxin Fact Sheet
4. Mercury Fact Sheet
5. PVC and Health Care Talking Points
6. Sample Fact Sheet and Watchdog Follow-Up
7. Alternatives to Medical Waste Incineration: Stopping the Toxic Threat
8. Medical Waste Treatment Technologies - Evaluating Non-Incineration Alternatives
III. Information for Community Action
9. Researching Your Community's Incinerator
10. How to File a Freedom of Information Act Request
11. Community Air Quality Monitoring
12. The Penny Test - How to Monitor for Hydrogen Chloride Gas
IV. Building an Anti-Incinerator Campaign: Information, Resources & Tools
13. Ten Basic Organizing Principles for Fighting a Medical Waste Incinerator
14. Taking it to the Streets - Organizing a Successful Direct Action
15. Planning an Educational Community Event
16. Launching a Postcard Campaign
17. Using Petitions as a Tool
18. Passing a Dioxin Resolution in Your Town
19. Educating Physicians at Hospitals with Incinerators
20. Media Attention - Making it Work for You
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