2009, August 12

The New York Times reports that China's landfills have at most another five years before they are full to overflowing. To solve the trash problem, China has turned to incinerators. However there are no national standards and some incinerators, especially in poorer inland areas, are producing massive pollution. Scientiest at the University of Washington and the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., have estimated that a sixth of the mercury deposited on North American water bodies comes from Asia, particularly China.

External Web Links:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E1DD113DF931A2575BC0A96F9C8B63

http://www.snoca.cn:8080/snoca/forum/viewthread?thread=4253

http://english.mep.gov.cn/standards_reports/EnvironmentalStatistics/yearbook2006/