Article: CUT TOXIC WASTE FASTER, ACTIVIST TELLS ENCON 'UNREALISTIC,' REPLIES STATE EXPERT.(Local)

Byline: Phil Brown Staff writer

The state should require industry to stop burning and burying hazardous waste, an environmental group said at a public hearing Friday.

"The only real way to prevent the tragic loss of life and health which are the result of the toxic-waste crisis" is to reduce the waste, said Alan Hays, a representative of the New York Environmental Institute.

Afterward, the state official who presided over the hearing called the non-profit group's recommendation unrealistic.

"It's not feasible to phase out both," said John Iannotti, a hazardous-waste expert in the Department of Environmental Conservation.

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