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Dioxins, Furans and HCBs inventory for CEPA

Dioxins, Furans and HCBs inventory for CEPA. Jan 1999 Federal provincial task force & Environment Canada. Caveats: letters were sent to the sectors identified to request release of information. Voluntary reporting by industry and public agencies

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Dioxins, Furans and HCBs inventory for CEPA

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  1. Dioxins, Furans and HCBsinventoryfor CEPA Jan 1999 Federal provincial task force & Environment Canada

  2. Caveats: letters were sent to the sectors identified to request release of information • Voluntary reporting by industry and public agencies • required reporting from pulp and paper industry, cement industry and some incinerators • estimated data • initial compilation of date, not exhaustive or complete

  3. Figure 1 - PCDDs/PCDFs Releases in grams TEQ/y in Canada to all Media (1999: projections) (Soil data are incomplete)

  4. “Effluents” Definition: WATER (not air, soil)

  5. Figure - 5 Atmospheric releases of PCDDs/PCDFs in grams TEQ/y

  6. Atmospheric releases • 43% reduction • captured in stacks and sent to Soil releases??

  7. Water releases • 99% reduction • result of regulation changes in pulp and paper industry • captured and sent to Soil releases??

  8. Soil releases • Pesticides: PCDDs/PCDFs are released to all media due to the use of pesticides. • Inservice treated wood(utility poles,RR ties) • No mention of pulp and paper effluent such as black liquor, e.g. Domtar Dombind) • sewage sludge on agricultural land • what about incinerator fly/bottom ash??

  9. Municipal Waste Incineration(151.7 gram TEQ/y - 50.8% of total) • Largest sources of dioxin and furan • existing incinerators (9 large, many small, and as well back yard barrell burning • future incinerators

  10. Ontario municipal waste incinerators • Oshawa GM EFWfacility • Hamilton SWARU solid waste reduction unit • London Victoria Hospital EFW • Brampton Peel EFW resource recovery unit

  11. Federal Incinerators All Types (0.6 gram TEQ/year) • Before 1990: 241 federal incinerators in operation in Canada releasing an estimated 1.3g TEQ/y. • 1997, approximately 93 federal incinerators, releasing 0.6 gm TEQ/y. • burn municipal or biomedical waste, etc.

  12. Residential wood burning • 12% of chlorinated dioxin/furan input • How can this be so? • Burning treated wood? • Burning pvc plastics? • Back yard barrell burners?

  13. Figure 2 - Expected PCDDs/PCDFs Atmospheric Releases in 1999 (200 grams TEQ/y) Canada, all provinces total

  14. 1995 TSMP • In 1995, the Federal Government adopted the Toxic Substances Management Policy (TSMP). The policy has two key management objectives: • virtual elimination from the environment of toxic substances that result predominantly from human activity, and that are persistent and bioaccumulative (Track 1 substances); and …….

  15. 1997, Track 1 • In 1997, Environment Canada indicated its intention to manage PCDDs/PCDFs and Hexachlorobenzene as Track 1 substances and published the Scientific Justification for PCDDs/PCDFs - Candidate Substances for Management under Track 1

  16. Hospital incinerators,1995 • 219 incinerators burning biomedical waste in Canada. Testing for dioxins/furans has been completed at 6 typical Ontario incinerators and the results of these tests extrapolated to all facilities in Canada based on the quantity of material burned. The estimated PCDDs/PCDFs emissions from hospital incinerators in Canada was 8.3 grams TEQ /y. in 1995.

  17. Hospital incinerators,II • Since 1995, a number of hospital incinerators has been shut down, thus reducing the total number of hospital incinerators to 160 and the total PCDDs/PCDFs releases to 2.5 g TEQ/y. All Hospital Incinerators in B.C. are expected to shut down by December 1998. This would further reduce the release from this sector.

  18. Hospital incinerators, III • No mention of or accounting for: • fly/bottom ash, • accounting for 1/3 the original volume • landfilled • in the US : hazardous waste • maybe no dioxin/furan in Ash? • Old units: no air emission controls at all

  19. Hazardous waste incineratorsin Canada 1.3 gram TEQ/y • 4 facilities, 5 incinerators • Emissions testing for dioxins/ furans has been performed at all 4 facilities • Swan Hills, AB (2) (one closed Feb98) • Sarnia, ON (1) • Bruce Nuclear Power, ON (1) • Mercier, QUE (1)

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