Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry

by Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Board on the Health of Select Populations, Health and Medicine Division, et al.

Military operations produce a great deal of trash in an environment where standard waste management practices may be subordinated to more pressing concerns. As a result, ground forces have long relied on incineration in open-air pits as a means of getting rid of refuse. Concerns over possible adverse effects of exposure to smoke from trash burning in the theater were first expressed in the wake of the 1990?1991 Gulf War and stimulated a series...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309451175
• ISBN13: 9780309451178
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.9"