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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Metro Vancouver is taking more heat over its plan to build a second garbage incinerator, with a new study commissioned by waste company Belkorp Environmental Services suggesting the move could cost up to $1.3 billion more than originally estimated. The analysis, conducted by ICF International on behalf of Belkorp, comes as Metro Vancouver attempts to […]

FARGO, N.D. — California health officials have given notice that North Dakota is one of six states that could receive Ebola medical waste in the event the state has any material to incinerate. In a notice posted last week, the California Department of Public Health listed North Dakota as one of six states where California […]

Norfolk County Council voted by 48 votes to 30 to terminate the contract for the proposed incinerator at Saddlebow at an extraordinary meeting in April. Council officers had said that, due to delays in securing planning permission, the controversial project no longer offered good value for money, and councillors agreed to ditch it. In May, […]

Researchers at the University of York have concluded that PyroPure (UK) technology has the potential to transform the way in which hazardous waste is destroyed in clinical environments and say pharmacists, manufacturers and hospitals throughout the UK should consider trialling the system. The announcement follows a six month Innovate UK-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership project in […]