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In observance of the Global Day of Action against Waste Incineration on 17 June 2002, Greenpeace Japan (www.greenpeace.or.jp), in coordination with the Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance (GAIA, www.no-burn.org), launched a petition targeting Japan's 12 biggest incinerator makers.
The APL and 89 regional and national NGOs from 16 countries in Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Israel, Kyrgzstan, Lebanon) signed up to this petition. |
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here to see list of signatories to this petition |
Asians Say No to Japanese Export
of
Dirty Incineration Technology
We,
citizens of Asia, condemn the dumping of polluting waste
disposal technology by Japanese incinerator companies, which
only exacerbates the health, environmental and economic problems
facing our nations.
We
disapprove moves by Japanese companies to expand their
incineration market abroad, particularly in Asia, in the midst
of growing opposition against dioxin pollution in Japan.
We find it totally unacceptable that Japan is exporting a
technology that is unpopular and unwanted by local communities
because of its negative impacts to public health and the
environmental.
We
oppose waste incineration because it releases into the
environment persistent organic pollutants (POPs) such as
cancer-causing dioxins. The Stockholm Convention on POPs, of
which the Government of Japan is among the 133 signatories, has
pinpointed municipal, hazardous and medical waste incinerators
as primary sources of by-product POPs and calls for the
substitution of alternatives for any processes, which produce
dioxins and other toxic pollutants.
Moreover,
we reject incineration because it destroys materials and
deprives future generations of resources, saddles our countries
with unbearable debts and undercuts programs and services for
the poor, undermines recycling and other sensible solutions to
waste problems, and concentrates economic gains in the hands of
big businesses.
To
the Government of Japan:
We ask you to discontinue prescribing biased waste management
solutions to our governments and stop funding incineration
projects in the region.
To
the People of Japan: We
affirm our unity with you in your inspiring actions to reclaim
your health and rescue the environment by closing down sources
of dioxin.
We
sign this petition on the occasion of the first ever Global Day
of Action against Waste Incineration on 17 June 2002
Posted
to the APL website
17-June-2002
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