The Environment

Antiquated waste disposal methods, namely incineration, burial and water dumping, have changed little for more than a century. These inferior methods have been, and are, jeopardizing public health and the quality of our environment. Furthermore, they are prohibitively expensive, subject to civil and criminal liabilities and are virtually impossible to monitor.

These methods have never effectively mitigated the negative impact improper containment of waste has on public health and our environment.

Incineration pollutes the air we breathe by spewing toxins and carcinogens into the atmosphere.

Landfills leach toxins into the soil and ground water. As water tables rise and lower, toxins absorbed by the soil increase and spread.

Dumping of waste at sea creates vast pockets of migrating cesspools, upsetting the ecology and adversely affecting marine life.

By 1986 the threat posed by toxic waste to our health and environmental quality had reached monumental proportions, and today, as a result of new toxins and their unrevealed effects, the situation may be worse than ever. Life sustaining oxygen and nutrition are both being severely damaged by these archaic methods of disposal.

Thankfully, these reckless disposal methods are being eliminated by law. However, of more than 31,000 contaminated waste sites that comprise the U.S. federally targeted Super-Fund initiative, as little as 3% have been decontaminated in accordance with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards.

In response to an increasing public outcry on the state of our environment the U.S. Congress decided to act -- by turning to TWI. As a result, the world now has an economically viable, safe, standardized, large-scale, permanent toxic waste disposal system.