World Bank Group and Incineration

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Previously released documents and correspondence on the World Bank Group and Incineration

Letter to the IFC with detailed comments on its draft guidelines [PDF file] for healthcare facilities, from Health Care Without Harm, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, and Basel Action Network [3/02]
Memo to the IFC on health care facilities guidelines from Health Care Without Harm, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, and Basel Action Network [5/01]
Health Care Without Harm's Comments on the World Bank's Draft Medical Waste Guidance Notes [6/99]
The World Bank's Dangerous Medicine: Promoting Medical Waste Incineration in Third World Countries [6/99]
Report by Multinationals Resource Center and Health Care Without Harm
Comments Needed for World Bank Draft Guidance Notes [6/99]
Global Response Action: Stop Construction of Medical Waste Incinerators / India
Global Response Action Update [10/97]
Related Links
Article: World Bank Report Recommends Incineration, Criticizes Environmentalists
Article: "Dangerous Medicine - World Bank Plans to Spread Dioxin in India," by Ann Leonard.Multinational Monitor, December 1996
Article: "Medical Waste Incineration and the World Bank," by Kevin Kniffen.
Letter: Health Care Without Harm to the World Bank [8/97]
Letter: Multinationals Resource Center to the World Bank [2/97]