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 […]

Power in Denmark is increasingly being generated in plants burning waste imported from England. The practice is being called an economical and environmental boon on both sides of the equation. The AVØ incinerator in Frederikshavn produces heating and power for the area by burning trash from England. “It is mainly construction waste like pieces of […]

Sales and marketing manager Paul Niklas said they had more than a hundred orders from global organisations and aid agencies, including the United Nations and the Red Cross. He also said most of their workforce was dedicated to manufacturing the incinerators. The larger ones can burn up to 1,000kg of waste an hour, smaller ones […]

GALVESTON, Texas Health officials say the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the coming days will destroy medical waste from a Dallas hospital where a Liberian man died of Ebola and two nurses became infected. UTMB President David Callender said at a news conference Friday that the campus has the only licensed facility […]

The pet incinerator installed at the pet cemetery in Nehru Nagar, Pimpri, is not yet operational despite being installed over a year ago owing to the delay in finalising monetary decisions for laying pipelines for CNG. Apparently, Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited (MNGL) and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) are both adamant on not compromising on […]

On October 13, 2014, Louisiana District Judge Bob Downing granted the Louisiana attorney general’s request for injunctive relief against “potentially Ebola-contaminated material” collected from the Dallas, Texas, Ebola victim’s apartment. The waste, contained within 142 55-gallon plastic drums, was first transported from the Dallas apartment to a Port Arthur incinerator under a Department of Transportation […]