On a positive note, the list shows that progress is possible. The McConway & Torley Foundry in Lawrenceville has reduced emissions of chromium compounds by 90% and nickel compounds by 97%, and dropped out of the Toxic Ten this year.
“Calling a hot dog sushi doesn’t make it sushi, and calling burning plastics 'recycling' doesn’t make it anything other than what it is: just another way to burn fossil fuels."
“We came up with this as a way to quantify how toxic different facilities were and then communicate to people what that meant in terms of what they were breathing.”
The results of a two-year air quality study illuminate which parts of the county experience the greatest concentrations of pollutants, and what that could mean for the health of our population.