Researchers estimate that ground-level concentrations of dioxin resulting from burning household trash in a burn barrel are 7000 times the amount formed when trash is burned in a municipal incinerator. Ash and sludge resulting from on-farm burning also contain significant amounts of toxic substances.
The temperatures generated at typical burning sites, burn barrels, and domestic incinerators is not adequate to eliminate the production of toxic substances.
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