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Originally Posted by andrea9k
I thought the rock ash was going to be burnt on Cemex and Domicem plants... mexican and italian companies. BTW, I want to see it get reduced to 1% its volume...
About the material disposition, I think finally they made a good decision (should I say, finally they made A decision??). Concrete/blocks are some of the potential uses of this rock ash. As a local block manufacturer's joint research demonstrated, blocks made with coal fired power plants ashes as an additive turn into lighter, cheaper and stronger blocks (depending on ashes quality).
I agree with gardito. Proper handling and storage of the material was the major problem here, being visual impact the most dramatic. Ignorance did the rest.
About the deals, good/bad intentions, law suits, etc etc etc, that will be 10 more years of fruitless discussions and at the end nobody will go to jail. AES PR sold an undesired product (I prefer this word, waste is something useless) and won't take it back. The Dominican government have to make sure this doesn't happen again. How? By writing senseful and up to date regulations and developing psychorigid personnel to enforce them.
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Your discovery that adding coal ash to the brick making mix makes for a “lighter, cheaper and stronger” brick, reminds me of that ancient Korean custom of throwing young live children into the molten metal mix as an “additive” to harden the alloy and produce crispier sounding bells.
The DR doesn’t need “up to date regulation” to protect itself from the importation of hazardous waste and materials. The regulations are there, in the books, both internationally and locally.
The laws were broken because of the corrupted government ‘mafiocracy’ that runs the country, helped of course by the lack of moral indignation from those who make excuses for these crimes…
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