Posted on 05/27/2016 8:59:03 AM PDT by Lorianne
According to research published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology, health is at risk for those who live within five kilometres of a landfill site.
Researchers in Italy evaluated the potential health effects of living near nine different landfills in the Lazio region, and therefore being exposed to air pollutants emitted by the waste treatment plants. 242,409 people were enrolled in the cohort from 1996 to 2008.
The results showed a strong association between Hydrogen Sulphide (used as a surrogate for all pollutants co-emitted from the landfills) and deaths caused by lung cancer, as well as deaths and hospitalizations for respiratory diseases. The results were especially prominent in children. The annual average exposure levels of Hydrogen Sulphide was 6.3 ng/m3, compared to people living close to larger landfills in Rome whose levels averaged 45.ng/m3. At the end of the follow-up period there were 18,609 deaths.
Co-author Francesca Mataloni commented that, "The evidence on the health of those living near landfills is still controversial. Most of the published studies only use aggregate health data and do not adjust for social-economic status. We have used a residential cohort approach to attempt to overcome these limitations."
Respiratory symptoms were detected among residents living close to waste sites. These were linked to inhalation exposure to endotoxin, microorganisms, and aerosols from waste collection and land filling. This is consistent with other studies; however the association between living proximity to landfill sites and cases of lung cancer is a new finding. The authors stressed that further studies need to be completed to confirm this.
Paging Captain Obvious...
Worrying about..., “Living near a landfill could damage your health”, could damage your health.
+1
Know some people that live near one.
The stench in the summer is horrible. SFL in August is already h3ll.
Not to worry, here in the US we have EPA to protect us.
The money and effort wasted on the obvious could have been used to clean up the landfills.
Considering the degenerate state of the US today, we can say we are living *in* a landfill.
Worthless study unless it controlled for social class variables. Epidemiology is not a science but a bastard of science. It uses correlation studies but correlation is not causation. It is more likely that the communities around landfills are lower income where people are more prone to drink heavily, smoke, eat too many carbohydrates and sugars, and live in cramped houses where indoor air quality is bad. Indoor air quality is way worse of a problem than outdoor because “the poison is in the dosage” — meaning if you concentrate anything in a confined space you get a higher dosage of it and thus it becomes toxic. Remember journalist Paul Brodeur’s bogus study “Currents of Fear” about proximity to power lines?
A couple of miles from my house is a sewerage treatment plant. Directly across the avenue was an unoccupied area so that the city geniuses built a ‘family park’ with picnic table, BBQ pits, swings for the kiddies, etc.
No one ever uses the park because the stink is so bad! ;-)
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It is interesting the things that are supposed to kill you, that some Octogenarians credit with giving them long life.
It will also damage your property values.
It is all the bodies that the mob dumped in the dumps that are creating the hazardous conditions.
The city genius built it for the kick backs had nothing to do with familys
Like the oldest living human, a woman 116 yrs old. When asked what her secret was, she replied, I’ve always eaten two eggs a day. So much for eggs and cholesterol.
Yes, and I’ll bet she wasn’t breaking out the yolks for discard either.
Not to worry, here in the US we have EPA to protect us.
Try telling that to the people who live near the Westlake Landfill.
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=westlake%20landfill
Yes, and I’ll bet she wasn’t breaking out the yolks for discard either.
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My wife eats egg whites only. Not for health reasons though, she simply does not like the yokes..
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