Dioxin risk from Sunshine Coast garbage collection opt-out

Plastic bags and other plastics, paper varieties and a whole range of other household waste turns into dioxin, the second-most toxic chemical after radioactive waste, when burnt.
That’s the risk posed in the Sunshine Coast rural hinterland by a council move to allow hard-to-access remote properties to opt out of wheelie bin rubbish collection.
A former Noosa shire councillor, Steve Walton, believes people on outlying properties will incinerate waste, producing dioxin which will be breathed in and will get into rainwater as it’s harvested into tanks.
He talked to me about his concerns on Noosa Community Radio. Hear the interview at http://www.noosacommunityradio.org/dioxin-risk-from-garbage-collection-o... .
There’s a very famous case of hundreds of people being poisoned by dioxin released in an industrial accident near Milan, Italy, in 1976. Hundreds of people were hospitalised, thousands of animals slaughtered, hundreds of people left with pockmarked skin. See http://www.google.com.au/search?q=seveso+italian+dioxin+crisis&rlz=1I7GG....