Think you may be talking to a different poster.
Made no reference to wood burning.
Some houses had garbage incinerators. Ours had one in the basement and we used it on a regular basis. There was also a huge community incinerator a mile away from us, plus a landfill and a few junkyards, not to mention a manufacturer by the name of American Asbestos. One such landfill was a toxic industrial chemical dump called Liquid Disposal and all hell broke loose back in the 80s when it was discovered how bad the leeching was and what were in the drums that were buried there, where just across the street is a branch of the Clinton River flowing towards Lake St. Clair. It’s like an abandoned property now, adjacent to one of the Township’s nature centers. All the fuss over it has died down over the years while the ground is probably still hazardous to humans. Then there was the gravel pit (dug out from an inactive older landfill) in between the Liquid Disposal site and our side of the river “plateau”. We played baseball in it before the waters came up. After that, we swam in it for another 3-4 years as teenagers...American Asbestos went out of business in the early 80s and anyone who remembers might wonder whether they’d been exposed to dangerous levels of toxins and whether it’s one of those things that makes you stronger if it doesn’t kill you first.
From the article: 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofuran (TCDF), a widespread persistent organic pollutant (POP) that is a byproduct of waste incineration, metal production, and fossil-fuel and wood combustion.
repling to the article, not the poster.