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Mexico: El Laboratorio de Investigación en Desarrollo Comunitario y Sustentabilidad (LIDECS) has raised the health risks from burning solid waste at cement plants in México state. Jorge Tadeo Vargas, part of the Faculty of Geography of the Autonomous University of Mexico State (UAEM) and a LIDECS representative highlighted the damage caused in Apaxco and Tlalnepantla in México and Hidalgo in Tula at a conference on the issue, according to the Milenio newspaper. Professor Brisa Carrasco of the UAEM Geography department also raised the issue of a lack of regulation and environmental and medical data on the subject.

Colombia: Holcim Colombia says it will stop burning ‘toxic’ waste as an alternative fuel at its Nobsa cement plant following a campaign by environmental activitists. The cement producer has stopped burning plastics at the plant, according to HSB News. However, initial complaints were leveled at the use of pharmaceutical, agricultural and industrial waste as fuels.