Talk:Burn pit

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First use
Quote: "The phrase was first used to refer to the common way of getting rid of waste at the U.S. military sites in Iraq and Afghanistan". It was used earlier than this, e.g. for pits used for cremation of victims at Treblinka extermination camp. Synthetic Woolly Mammoth (talk) 23:23, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Should the title be edited to Burn Pit?
Should Pit be capitalized, as in the  text of the article? If so, I do not know how to do it. Feedback would be appreciated. TMorata (talk) 12:46, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * why would it be capitalized? you wouldn't do it writing it anywhere else - a burn pit is not a proper noun. Praxidicae (talk) 17:24, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Pollutants
In "The materials burned and combustion products", it seems like there is a large list of pollutants, including an entry for "17 PAHs". Unfortunately, most of the other pollutants mentioned in the list are PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), which suggests that there is an even larger number of different PAHs found. This is misleading, as it does not match the source material, and should be clarified/tidied up.

To clarify this: Several dozen different PAHs are commonly emitted from open fires, however in this particular study, only the representative 16+1 PAHs were analyzed.

This page / a similar one as an alternative to Incineration

 * I am doing some work on Municipal Solid Waste / Solid Waste Management in developing / poor / rural areas and whatnot, and i see that this page is mainly aimed at the USA Miliatry Practice, and that Incineration does have some stuff on Open Burning, but is there/could there be some sort of page specifically on Open Burning and the health / ecological etc impacts of this? This page seems like the closest (hence me making Open Burning redirect to here for now, but the military aspect may make it worthwhile for a second page?  That or make this one more generalized, with a USA Military Section?

--Eric Lotze (talk) 19:21, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Local populations
Nothing on adverse effects on local populations. 51.37.128.15 (talk) 07:43, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Presumptive conditions
It looks like some of the article is out of date, since the USDVA now lists presumptive conditions on the burn pit page. I added a statement to that effect in the 'Cancer' section I was working on, but the whole page could probably use a more thorough edit to update this. Wikium (talk) 20:52, 5 March 2024 (UTC)