Therefore, even if it is assumed that all other point-source industrial emissions of dioxins were decreased to zero by the year 2008, so that the only other source of dioxins was residential combustion of wood, estimated in the EU dioxin inventory to be about 320 g TEQ (Quass, 2005), the total MSWI emissions of dioxins amounted to only 0.37% of the total dioxin
emissions in France.