Toxic Donut

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Definition

Historical

The term Toxic Doughnut was coined by Hazel Johnson.[1] Located on the industrial southeast side of Chicago USA.


Technical

<https://ejatlas.org/conflict/chicagos-toxic-doughnut-usa>

Superfunds

  • Lake Calumet Cluster

The 87-acre Lake Calumet Cluster site is a group of land and waste storage and disposal facilities in southeastern Chicago. The 87-acre site includes US Drum, Alburn Incinerator, Unnamed Parcel, and a portion of Paxton Lagoons. The site was originally wetlands. In the early 1900’s, nearby steel mills and other industries dumped materials such as slag, dredged spoils, demolition debris and other waste materials. Unauthorized industrial, chemical, and municipal waste disposal took place at the Site from 1940’s to 1980’s.[2]

Pyrolysis Feedstuff

"Poisonous Homes: The Fight for Environmental Justice in Federally Assisted Housing" Shriver Center on Poverty Law (June 2020) <https://www.povertylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/environmental_justice_report_final-rev2.pdf>

<https://slideplayer.com/slide/12817298/>

Sources

  1. "Public housing residents kept in dark about toxic sites, report says" Chicago Sun-Times (1 July 2020) by Brett Chase. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/7/1/21310566/public-housing-cha-epa-shriver-hud
  2. https://www.epa.gov/superfund/lake-calumet-cluster