for this type of disposal is limited and helps the environmental factor of other countries that do not have this process and have to resort to landfills or burning the waste at dangerously low temperatures like, America and Germany.7. In the eighties many articles on "green" companies and industries featured Rechem 8. Rechem were praised by the Minister for the Environment at the time as "true friends of the earth"9. Rechem were acknowledged as a world leader in the safe incineration of dangerous chemicals.Cons:- of firms like Rechem importing & disposing chemical waste:1. Britain is taking other countries and disposing of it for them and the sub product of the incineration product is released into British air.2. The research to test if it is fully liable is limited and seems to be on a trial and error basis.3. Profit and shareprices seem more important than environmental issues.4. The world is more environmentally aware.5. Bad press as stories circulated about babies being born with eye malformations and also diseased cattle near Rechem plants. 6. The Daily Telegraph reported that tests on foliage samples near the South Wales Rechem plant showed PVBs to be 50-100 times the pollution inspectorates advisory limit.7. A Welsh Water Authority document stated that the Pontypool plant had discharged up to 82 times the permitted levels of lead, copper, zinc and nickel into the sewers.8. Trouble of removing bad press scars about the safety of disposing chemicals without discharging polluted air and that it can dispose of the ash and residue without contaminating the locality.9. PCBs are highly dangerous and are believed to cause cancer and damage to the liver.10. Contaminated cargoes of PCB would have to be transported to the treatment plant on the road sea and air, any accidents in these situations would be disastrous and puts the British people and wildlife in a precarious situation.11. Dock workers and employees refused to handle PCBs from ...
