The Board of County Commissioners struck down plans Thursday for a regional waste-to-energy incinerator, opting to haul the county’s waste to a landfill with a short-term contract instead. In a 3-2 vote, Commissioners President Blaine Young and commissioners Kirby Delauter and David Gray voted to kill the $471 million incinerator project by canceling the contract […]
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The Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District is suing Maxxam Analytics International Corp. and Covanta Burnaby Renewable Energy ULC for allegedly failing to properly test fly ash samples from the district’s waste-to-energy facility in Burnaby. The district filed a notice of civil claim in BC Supreme Court on October 16. Covanta, according to the claim, […]
Hazardous situation: Incinerators at K-P...
PESHAWAR: Even with clear rules which state hospital waste must be incinerated within 24 hours of its collection, incinerators at two major hospitals in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) are out of order and the waste is dumped outside the hospitals. According to data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 15 to 20 tons of hospital waste […]
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Adjumani Hospital incinerator blows up
ADJUMANI. The incinerator at Adjumani Hospital, which was built four years ago, has burst due to overheating. For the past four months, support staff at the hospital have been dumping medical waste within the enclosure of the incinerator instead of burning it. The hospital administrator, Mr Michael Ojja, told Daily Monitor on Wednesday that the […]
Bangor’s former incinerator property is
The Bangor Borough Authority will not sell the former incinerator property. Not right now, at least. The board voted Thursday evening to support authority Chairman Donald Butz’s Oct. 2 letter to borough council President James Kresge that stated the authority need to not sell the incinerator and the surrounding home now identified collectively as the […]
Bid to burn waste from out of town in Ne...
Veolia is seeking to source non-recyclable commercial and industrial waste for its Newhaven Incinerator from areas neighbouring East Sussex and Brighton and Hove. It argues this will allow the incinerator to produce enough energy to power 25,000 homes continuously. But cllr Rod Main from Newhaven said this would lead to more trucks and pollution. Veolia […]
Texas Ebola waste will not be disposed i...
On Friday Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced the State of Louisiana reached an agreement with Texas incinerator Veolia Environmental Services and Louisiana hazardous waste landfill Chemical Waste Management to ensure that incinerator ash associated with the recent Dallas Ebola virus occurrence will not be transported or disposed of in Louisiana, . On Oct. 13 the […]
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Heathrow Airport has announced plans to move an incinerator away from Stanwell and create a 15 mile ‘green ring’ around the town. The airport said it altered its plans after residents raised concerns over its plans to relocate its incinerator to the Bedfont Road area. A Labour county councillor however has said it is like […]
Tinian solid waste: Where to go?
THREE options are on the table for disposing off Tinian solid waste: incineration, Fukuoka method or off-island disposal. The Marine Forces Pacific recently held an ad hoc committee meeting with the Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality, Environmental Protection Agency, Tinian Mayor’s Office, Department of Public Works and Administration representatives at the BECQ office on […]