“The Department of Defense currently operates 38 toxic burn sites in the U.S., mostly in low-income, rural communities. At these sites, the military collects excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions, including bullets, missiles, mines, and the bulk explosive and flammable materials used to manufacture them, and destroys them by adding diesel and lighting them on fire, or by blowing them up

. Last fiscal year, the Department of Defense destroyed 32.7 million pounds of explosive hazardous waste on U.S. soil using these methods, known as open burning and open detonation.”

More at: https://grist.org/health/military-burn-pit-health-effects-veterans-overseas-domestic/

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Laura Olah | Executive Director

Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger | www.CSWAB.org

National Coordinator | Cease Fire Campaign

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