| VideoActive ProductionsList 
            1: Videos documenting municipal and 
            hazardous waste incinerators and their alternatives. Also video 
            on proposed geothermal project for Hawaii.•
 
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      | Date  | Length (minutes) | Title | 
          Description | 
    
      | Municipal 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1985 | 45 | Auburn, 
        Maine, Incinerator (Consumat. 200 tpd)
 | 
          Illustrates 
            the lack of screening of incoming refuse, the ash landill problem 
            and economic problems. Includes an interview with Paul Connett 
            describing the problems of incineration and the merits of the 
            alternatives. | 
    
      | Municipal 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1986 | 30 | Rome, 
        New York, Incinerator (Clear Air. 200 tpd)
 | 
          Interviews 
            with local residents who discuss their concerns about the plant 
            and details on some of the mechanical problems the incinerator 
            had in the first year of operation including buckled grates, damaged 
            furnace linings and corroded stacks. According to Brenda Reed, the fields adjacent to the Rome incineraor 
              grow corn and beans. "In the fall they are trucked down to 
              New Jersey where they are made into canned beans and mainly baby 
              foods."  | 
    
      | Municipal 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1986 | 34 | Saugus, 
        Massachussetts, Incinerator (Wheelabrator/Signal. 1500 tpd)
 | 
          Description 
            of some of the problems local residents have experienced during 
            its 11-year operation, including odors, respiratory 
              problems, soot on houses, cars, gardens, etc., traffic, 
            noise and ash disposal. The only pollution control device is an 
            ESP. | 
    
      | Municipal 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1986 | 60 | Windham, Connecticut, Incinerator (Consumat, 108 tpd)
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          Includes a 
            very candid tour with plant manager Ray White. Of particular note 
            is the large quantity of unburned garbage emerging on the ash 
            conveyor belt and the fact that the plant 
              had operated for nearly two years without the air pollution controls 
              connected -they used their "dump stacks." Interviews 
            with local residents from a trailer park some 1500 feet away reveal 
            their anger and concern about the plant and a list of respiratory 
            problems which they attribute to the incinerator emissions. | 
    
      | Municipal 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1991 | 39:04 | Warren 
        County's Incinertor: The Wrong Model For New Jersey | 
          Situated 
            in the middle of cornfields. 
              When state officials opened this facility in 1988 it was hailed 
              as the model incinerator that would prove to all the "doubters" 
              that they were wrong to oppose the plans. This incinerator has 
              experienced nearly all the problems that activists had warned 
              about. In this video we hear from local farmers, school children, 
              residents and activists. Also, an interview with Craig Volland, 
              an expert on mercury emissions from incinerators. | 
    
      | Municipal 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1990 | 50 | Florida 
        Burning: An Update On Incineration
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          This video 
            investigates several counties in Florida which are suffering the 
            economic and environmental consequences of Florida's rush to build 
            incinerators. Included are several interviews with residents who 
            live near incinerators in Lake, Pinellas and Pasco counties. Greenpeace 
              organizer Brian Hunt explains the mercury build-up in fish. | 
    
      | Municipal 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1991 | 59:25 | Victims 
        of Incineration in Madison Heights, Michigan | 
          This 
            incinerator operated for many years adjacent to an elementary 
            school and within a few hundred feet of a senior citizens' housing 
            project. Over the years many citizens complained to local and state officials 
              about the smoke, odors, falling ash, and respiratory problems 
              they suffered. It wasn't until local teachers, nurses and other 
              residents organized and formed Citizens Against Pollution that 
              the state finally closed the plant down. This state aciton was 
              helped by revelations that soil on the school 
                playground contained high levels of lead and that local cancer 
                rates were much higher than in comparable suburban areas in Michigan. | 
    
      | Municipal 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1990 | 50:30 | Europeans 
        Mobilizing Against Trash Incineration | 
          • 
            GERMANY: In June 1990, over one million people in the German state of Bavaria registered to support a referendum calling for 
              "The Better Garbage Concept." Featuing interviews with 
              doctors, activists, politicians, and citizens, this tape explains 
              "The Better Garbage Concept" and how it would prevent 
              incinerators from being built in Bavaria. In some areas in Germany, because dioxin has been found in high 
                levels in mother's breast milk, doctors now recommend that mothers 
                limit breast feeding to three months. 
 • HOLLAND: In 
                            July 1989, the Dutch government enacted a ban on the sale of all 
                            milk and meat from 16 farms downwind of the Rotterdam trash incinerator (which operated with only an ESP for pollution control) because 
                              of the high levels of dioxin and furan contamination found in 
                              milk from farms downwind of the incinerator. Paul Connett 
              interviews two farmers who have been impacted by this ban. They 
              explain that since the ban the government has bought all milk 
              and meat produced from their farms. The 
                fat of the milk is skimmed and destroyed in a hazardous waste 
                incinerator.
 • 
          WALES: Interviews with residents who live near the ReChem 
            hazardous waste incinerator in Pontypool. | 
    
      | Municipal 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1991 | 50:54 | Selling 
        Incineration Behind Closed Doors | 
          This tape 
            is for all those who have ever wondered how it is that despite 
            a wealth of evidence that confirms the environmental and economic 
            hazards of playing host to a commercial incinerator, certain politicians 
            are able to maintain a glassy-eyed stare of indiffedrence. This 
            video was obtained from a county commissioner by citizens in Northampton, 
              North Carolina. It is a "training 
                session" where PR oficials play the role of TV interviewers 
                firing off the kind of embarassing questions citizens often ask those who claim that getting into the waste business will 
            provide economic salvation for a depressed local economy. Paul 
            Connett offers a commentary on what he feels is going on behind 
            those closed doors. | 
    
      | Arguments 
        Against Municipal Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1989 |   | Waste 
        Management As If The Future Mattered | 
          Paul Connett 
            puts the trash problems into the larger context of global pollution 
            and our resource crisis. Connett summarizes the arguments against 
            incinertion and illustrates the alternatives of source separation,reuse, 
            recycling, composting, toxic removal, and landfilling of the screened 
            residue. Included with this tape is a 48-page booklet written 
            by Connett which expands many of the scientific and practical 
            points illustrated in the video. Watch video online. | 
    
      | Arguments 
        Against Municipal Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1986 | 27 | Interview 
        with Bernd Franke of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.
 (Offices at the time: Germany and US)
 | 
          Franke destroys 
            the illusion that the Germans are infatuated with incineration 
            and describes the Institute's 400-page study which compared nine different methods of handling waste. The study 
            concluded that a combination of mandatory source separation, composting 
            and recycling would achieve the same volume reducation as incineration 
            but is safer, cheaper and more socially acceptable.  | 
    
      | Comedy 
        al la Municipal Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1991 | 21:25 | Incineration 
        a la Monty Python | 
          Performed 
            in front of a live audience of grassroot activists at a CCHW conference 
            in Washington DC in October 1989. The video is a record of six 
            sketches that poke fun at the way incinerators are all too often 
            "slipped into town." Mark Lohbauer wrote and directed 
            the performances and his role as Mr. Smug of the Very, Very Big 
            Corporation is a classic. A great antidote to one of the industry's 
            boring presentations on those wonderful "state-of-the-art, 
            perfectly harmless, waste-to-energy resource destruction facilities, 
            which we need to start building right now!" | 
    
      | Medical 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1990 | 52 | A 
        Regional Medical Waste Incinerator in Hampton, South Carolina | 
          This tape 
            is a rough edit of footage shot in Hampton. It features the DeCom facility which began life as a trash incinerator burning waste 
            from 3 counties but is now burning 100 tons-per-day of medical 
            waste from many parts of the N.E. and midwest US. The testimonies 
            from both former employees and local residents are hair-raising 
            and give an indication of what could happen when such facilities 
            are run with the profit motive dominating worker and environmental 
            protection. | 
    
      | Hazardous 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1988 | 60 | Calvert 
        City: One of Kentucky's Best Kept Secrets | 
          Depicts the 
            environmental and health damage inflicted upon the citizens of 
            Calvert City (population less than 3,000) and surrounding area, 
            by a combination of nine chemical plants and a hazardous waste 
            incinerator. The citizens of Calvert City, who have felt the impact 
            of chemical mismanagement and ineffective regulation, have been 
            expected to "prove" that their health was damaged. | 
    
      | Hazardous 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1990 | 60 | Hazardous 
        Waste Incineration: A scandal in North Carolina
 | 
          This vido 
            focuses on citizens who have been damaged physically and emotionally 
            by past and present practices of incinerating hazardous waste. • In Lenoir, Caldwell County, 
            Connett interviews workers who suffer from permanent brain damage 
            and severe health problems; a local doctor who believes their 
            problems are directly linked to the incinerator operations;and 
            residents who were affected by the plant's operations. The incinerator 
            shut down in September 1989.
 • In Rockhill, South Carolina, residents tell of the environmental and political problems associated 
            with Thermalkem's hazardous waste 
            incinerator.
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      | Hazardous 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1990 | 25 | Hazardous 
        Waste Incineration in Roebuck, South Carolina: The People Unprotected.
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          Residents 
            of Roebuck describe their experiences and concerns with the hazardous 
            waste incinerator operated by GSX. 
            They tell of black smoke, choking fumes, 
              nauseating odors and of living with the constant fear that 
            a major fire or explosion might occur at any time. They also explain 
            their sense of injustice at being one of the dozen or so communities 
            in the US who are the recipients of hazardous 
              waste imported from all parts of the country. Citizens 
            are outraged that their state authorities do so little to protect 
            them. | 
    
      | Hazardous 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1991 | 30:20 | Hazardous 
        Waste Incineration in Disguise: Sham Recycling | 
          In a massive 
            loophole in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 
            many types of hazardous wastes can be incineratred in essentially 
            unregulated facilities as long as the word "recycling" 
            is used in the company's description of their operation. This 
            video features two such facilities: • Carolina Solite in Aquadale, North 
                        Carolina, which uses hazardous waste as its primary fuel 
            in producing a "lightweight building material"; and
 • Marine Shale Processors of Louisiana.
 Interviews with citizens who live near these plants.
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      | Hazardous 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1991 | 47:10 | Two 
        Views of Hazardous Waste Incineration from Biebesheim, Germany | 
          Biebesheim 
            is an agricultural area in the state of Hessen. • The first interview is with a technical expert from the 
            P.R. department of the hazardous waste incinerator who describes 
            the processes and the numerous pieces of equipment designed to 
            keep harmful air emissions to a minimum.
 • The second interview is with the Burgermeister from the 
            nearby town of Reidstadt and members of his environmental advisory 
            team who describe the many problems experienced by the plant and 
            the local communities. There have been many fires in the loading 
            bunker, accidents involving both trucks and trains delivering 
            waste to the facility, reports of releases of black smoke, respiratory 
            problems, and reports of high levels of dioxins and furans and 
            other pollutants in the soil and air near the facility. Incredibly, Von Roll cited the Biebesheim incinerator as the model for 
              the WTI hazardous waste incinerator 
                in East Liverpool, Ohio.
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      | Hazardous 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1990 | 50:30 | Europeans 
        Mobilizing Against Trash Incineration | 
          Cited 
            above under municipal waste incineration, this video also contains 
            information on hazardous waste incinerators:
 • HOLLAND: In 
                        July 1989, the Dutch government enacted a ban on the sale of all 
                        milk and meat from 16 farms downwind of the Rotterdam trash incinerator 
                        (which operated with only an ESP for pollution control) because 
                        of the high levels of dioxin and furan contamination found in 
                        milk from farms downwind of the incinerator. Paul Connett 
              interviews two farmers who have been impacted by this ban. They 
              explain that since the ban the government has bought all milk 
              and meat produced from their farms. The 
                fat of the milk is skimmed and destroyed in a hazardous waste 
                incinerator.
 • 
          WALES: Interviews with residents who live near the ReChem 
            hazardous waste incinerator in Pontypool. | 
    
      | Hazardous 
        Waste Incineration: | 
    
      | 1990 | 53 | The 
        Differences Between the Theory and Practice in Hazardous Waste Incineration | 
          There are 
            about a dozen commercial hazardous waste incinerators operating 
            in the US. This video overviews seven of these incinerators, using 
            video material obtained from a variety of sources. The focus is 
            on citizens' reactions and the concerns of medical doctors. | 
    
      | REPAIR, 
        REUSE & RECYCLING CENTER: | 
    
      | 1991 | 29:42 | WasteWise: A Community Resource Center
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          Located in Halton Hills, a community of 40,000 
            just west of Toronto, Canada. Not 
            only a place to recycle, this is a place for education, reuse 
            and repair. Diane van de Valk and Rita Landry explain the four 
            main functions of WasteWise.1. The Education Center & Information 
              Service provides business and individuals information related 
            to reduction, composting, environmentally friendlier products, 
            etc.
 2. The Repair Center is where community 
            volunteers repair bicycles, toasters, irons, appliances, etc., 
            that would otherwise be discarded as trash.
 3. The Reuse Center is a giant flea 
            market where hundreds of previously owned objecs from games & 
            books and kitchenware to sofas are sold at 25 to 50 cents per 
            pound.
 4. The Recycling Center accepts the 
            superstars of recyclables as well as a remarkable range of textles, 
            rubber, clothing, shoes, cork, etc. The 
              goal is to teach people waste reduction, not recycling.
 Opened in May 1991. This is the model that many other communities 
            will want to copy. This tapes offeres a glimpse of the future.
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      | Composting: | 
    
      | 1991 | 49:45 | Community 
        Composting in Zurich, Switzerland | 
          A very exciting 
            and innovative composting program in which the local authority 
            encourages householders to get together and form their own small-scale 
            community compost plots. To date there are 482 such plots run 
            by groups ranging in size from 3 householders to as many as 200 
            apartment dwellers. The first part of the video features Thomas 
            Waldmeir, the advisor to the de-centralized composting program. 
            The second part is a vist to a large centralized composting facility 
            which handles 200 tons-a-day of yard waste brought in by both 
            public and private haulers. | 
    
      | Composting: | 
    
      | 1988 | 59 | Composting: 
        Zoo Doo and You Can Too | 
          Begins with 
            the composting program at the Woodland Park 
              Zoo in Seattle, Washington, and presents a low-tech approach 
            to composting animal manure, food and yard waste. The Seattle Tilth Association's Backyard Composting Demonstration 
              Site is also featured. This segment shows the varied methods 
            of composting. | 
    
      | Composting: | 
    
      | 1989 | 31 | Recycling's 
        Missing Link: Fillmore County, Minnesota | 
          A tour of 
            the Resource Recovery Center in rural Fillmore County, including 
            outdoor windrow composting. The finished compost is used primarily 
            for road construction projects. | 
    
      | Recycling: | 
    
      | 1986 | 60 | Recycling 
        in Germany | 
          Illustrates 
            source separation programs operating in several cities in Germany. 
            Also a separation plant for mixed recyclables; a factory recycling 
            mixed plastcs; an in-vessel composting plant; drop-off recycling 
            containers; and toxic removal efforts. | 
    
      | Recycling: | 
    
      | 1987 | 60 | Recycling 
        in the USA: Don't take "no" for an answer | 
          Interviews 
            with four successful recyclers: • Joe Garbarino, a waste hauler from Marin County, CA.
 • Peter Karter, an engineer from Connecticut
 • Mark Lohbauer, a lawyer and council member from Pennsauken, 
            NJ
 • David Birbeck, a selectman from North Stonnington, CT.
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      | Recycling: | 
    
      | 1987 | 48 | Millie 
        Zantow: Recycling Pioneer North Fredom, Wisonsin
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          Millie's energy 
            and vision is behind this successful operation which utilizes 
            the part-time and volunteer work of senior citizens and little 
            technical equipment. Also included on this 
              tape is a 5-minue piece produced by Dan Smith of WMTV in Madison, 
              Wisconsin, on The Trashman from Rockford, Illinois. | 
    
      | Recycling: | 
    
      | 1988 | 
          42 | How 
        Rodman, New York, Recycles | 
          Charlie Valentine 
            explains how this rural community of 850, confroned with a proposal 
            to build a 1200 acre regional landfill in Jefferson 
              County, built a recycling center next to their waste transfer 
            station and reduced the amount of waste being sent to the landfill 
            by 70% by volume. | 
    
      | Materials 
        Recovery Facility | 
    
      | 1987 | 47 | Skamania 
        County, Washington: Materials Recovery Facilty | 
          Features Bret 
            Norlund and the facility he designed, built ($400,000) and operates 
            near Stevenson WA. Located in rural Skamania County (pop 10,000) 
            this facility can handle the complete waste stream and has reduced 
            the volume of materials going to the landfill by 65-70%. A 5-minute 
            tape of The Trashman is included. | 
    
      | Materials 
        Recovery Facility | 
    
      | 1987 | 38 | Joe 
        Garbarino: The Only Way To Go. The Marin County, California, Materials Recovery Plant.
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          In this video, 
            Joe Garbarino talks about past, present and future aspects of 
            the garbage crisis and the separation facility and curbside collection 
            programs he successfully operates. His ideas are for citizens, 
            haulers, manufacturers and politicians. A 5-minute tape of The 
              Trashman is included. | 
    
      | GEOTHERMAL | 
    
      | 1990 | 58:30 | Geothermal: A Risky Business in Hawaii's Wao Kele O Puna Rainforest
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          Geothermal 
            is an alternative energy soure to fossil fuels and nuclear energy. 
            The project proposed in Hawaii elicited a storm of protest as 
            it was situated in a rainforest located on the side of Kilaea 
            -the most active volcano in the world. Paul Connett interviews 
            leading scientists, economists, energy experts, engineers, activists, 
            native Hawaiians, musician Jerry Garcia, 
              and Pulitizer prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin. The video 
            focuses on the:• threats to human health
 • threats to the rainforest
 • concerns of the native Hawaiians
 • viability of the project
 • problems of transmitting power over land and under sea 
            from the Big Island to Honolulu
 • economics of the project and the alternative methods of 
            saving 500 megawatts of electrical power through efficiency and 
            conservation measures.
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