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What can we grow in our rivers to remove PCB's and other harmful things out of our rivers?

Is Ivex Corporation, steel dumping PCB's into the Rivers?

Who many lives have died because of the PCB's in our water that cook with and we drink in the last 30 years?

2006-07-08 01:57:46 · 1 answers · asked by servants4earth 1 in Health Diseases & Conditions Cancer

PCB's are a class of chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls. They are entirely man-made and do not occur naturally. They were first manufactured commercially in 1929 by Monsanto, their sole U.S. manufacturer. They were used in many different types of products including hydraulic fluid, casting wax, pigments, carbonless copy paper, plasticizer, vacuum pumps, compressors, heat transfer systems and others. Their primary use, however, was as a dielectric fluid in electrical equipment. Because of their stability and resistance to thermal breakdown as well as their insulating properties they were the fluid of choice for transformers and capacitors. As a matter of fact, because of their fire resistance, they were required by some fire codes.

What can we grow in our rivers to remove PCB's?

2006-07-08 02:12:24 · update #1

During the 1970's, the health risks associated with PCB's became a major consideration due to several well publicized incidents. The most noted of these is known as the Yusho Incident. It took place in Japan when a rice oil plant had an equipment leak of PCB fluid into the product. The rice oil was sold and consumed resulting in many people being adversely affected.
Among the health affects of PCB's are skin ailments called chloracne, reproductive disorders, liver disease and neurological problems in children. PCB's are a suspected human carcinogen and a known animal carcinogen. They are resistant to degradation and therefore persist for many years in the environment. Furthermore, they bioaccumulate in the foodchain and are stored in the body fat of animals and humans. Because of the health and environmental risks associated with PCB's, an Act of Congress, the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

2006-07-08 02:19:13 · update #2

Who are they the "Ivex Corporation" x (EPA) = PCB's in our rivers?
What should the EPA And Ivex Corporation grow in our rivers to remove all the harm that they have caused, and what life should they restore that the PCB's killed by them joining as a team all together as one?
Who must have become a large team the EPA x Ivex Corporation x Water Co. x Health Department x hospitals x drug Industry x the news = death of our lived one's by not warning the public of the dangers in the water supply over the Pass 30 years of PCB's?
Who has paid the prices of using the water, although some in charge have know about the PCB’s in our water supplies?
What can we grow in our rivers to restore them?

2006-07-08 02:48:46 · update #3

1 answers

The only thing that'll help is about a bazillion years.

2006-07-08 02:01:39 · answer #1 · answered by Bluealt 7 · 1 0

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