Many of the country's 120 hospital incinerators now burn PVC plastic, paper, batteries and
discarded equipment, and this leads to emissions of dioxins, mercury and other toxins. The …

Incineration: no other form of hazardous waste disposal has matched its efficiency at volume
reduction, and the permanent destruction of organic wastes. That convenience may come at …

Reveals that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland has burned about
35 tons of medical, tissue and radiological waste each week for decades. Possible …

Approximately 2400 hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators (HMIWIs) operate in the
United States, and they combust about 846,000 tons of hospital/medical/infectious waste …

The annual cost of medical care in the U niled States is rapidly approaching a trillion dollars.
Without doubt, much of the rise in costs is due to our health industry's concentration on high …

This chapter provides an overview of waste generation, waste stream composition, and
incineration in the context of waste management. Communities are faced with the challenge …

Article 14 of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC or the
“Agreement”) creates a mechanism for citizens to file submissions in which they assert that a …

An introduction to myself. I taught environmental chemistry and toxicology at St. Lawrence
University in Canton, NY. I reached the rank of full professor and retired in May 2006. Since …

On December 10, 2001, Illinois-based waste management company Stericycle, Inc.
finalizedthe purchase of Integrated Environmental Systems (IES), an Oakland, California …

Incineration sterilizes and detoxifies medical waste and converts it to innocuous ash,
reducing its weight and volume by 90 to 95 percent. However, there is concern about …