Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because Casmalia is unincorporated, the school is the only government outpost in town, which is one reason it has become the rallying point for antidump % activity. Another reason is Kenneth McCalip, the school's principal, who has become the town's toxic-waste spokesman and organizer. Last fall, says McCalip, "it would get really yucky in the lunchroom." Nauseated children were being sent home early. One day in November he evacuated the whole school, all 21 students. "The wind died down, and the odors got so darn bad. The fumes started rolling into our classrooms, more than we'd ever...
...matter how carefully Casmalia Resources goes about its business, says Lachenmaier, the p.r. director, some of the people who live nearby will remain unhappy. "They have a provincial view of the situation," she says. "They don't want us to exist--and that's the bottom line." Toxic waste must go somewhere, she pleads. Why not here...
...industries face the growing problem of how to deal with toxic wastes, which now total an awesome 300 million tons generated each year, they have increasingly turned to new technologies. Science has yet to find foolproof ways of getting rid of all polysyllabic perils. But it has come up with a number of alternatives to simple dumping...
Toxins like organic solvents, PCBs and dioxin will be broken down ^ completely only when burned at temperatures exceeding 2,400 degrees F. Some conventional incinerators can generate such heat, but without careful controls to maintain high temperatures they may spew toxic gases into the air. People fear the fumes may prove as perilous as the chemicals from which they come. But new technologies may overcome these obstacles...
...unit. Because the bacteria possess a sticky body surface, they pick up zinc, iron and other metals in the water as it passes over the plates. They also eat the cyanide that once threatened to kill the waterway's marine life. Barely a year ago, the creek was too toxic for trout, but now they seem to be thriving...