Tire-Burning Cement Plants World Wide We are not alone. There are tire burning cement plants polluting our air and water all over the world. Major plants in Texas, California, Michigan, and England are all the focus of intense efforts to save the environment and prevent cancer by local groups. [visit links below] Organizations like the National Citizens Alliance and Downwinders (Texas local group) and the U.K group National Alliance for Cleaner Kilns all have active web sites full of information and links. This is happening all over. In pristine valleys in Scotland, on the plains of Texas, next to lake Michigan, in San Mateo, California, next to silicon valley, tires are burning sending toxic air pollutants upward to fall into the lungs of our children. Cement plants are often built in the most beautiful pristine areas. Limestone deposits of ancient sea beds nestle in the soft valleys and are the bedrock of tiny villages worldwide. Then it all changes, the cement plant comes and the valley is transformed, the children get leukemia, the air is fouled, and the trucks roll in. The quality of life is ruined, and the sacred earth changed. We must protect what is left worldwide, work together, be one. Downwinders At Risk -- dedicated to ending kiln incineration of hazardous waste at the TXI Midlothian, Texas cement plant National Alliance for Cleaner Kilns -- the english site about kilns in Europe Cement Kilns and Hazardous Waste -- provided by The National Citizens Alliance (NCA), a coalition of grassroots environmental groups from communities in 18 states where cement or aggregate companies are burning or proposing to burn hazardous waste in their kilns The Air That We Breathe Group -- a pressure group based in the Westbury area of Wiltshire, England. This dedicated to raising local awareness of the implications to the environment and people's health due to tyre-burning and other process emissions at Blue Circle Cement's Westbury cement plant