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Waste    Incineration

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Regulations

• ! The phase-out of hospital waste incineration in British Columbia, Canada !

 

• German Emission Standards for Waste Incinerators:

Verordnung über Verbrennungsanlagen für Abfälle und ähnliche brennbare Stoffe - 17. BImSchV

 

• US EPA Revised Standards for Hazardous Waste Combustors (1,35 MB!) and access to other documents under Hazardous Waste Combustion Proposed Rule

Anti-Incineration Campaigns

• Arrest the Incinerator Remediation (A.I.R.), US

 

• Communities Against Toxics (CATs), UK

 

• Gare Hazardous Waste Incinerator Case, Hungary

 

• Norwegian and British Green Parties fighting with waste incinerators

 

• Proposed Incinerator Deal Threatens Baltimore Moratorium

 

• The US National Coalition Against Incineration

 

• WTI Columbus Ohio Incinerator

Reports

• Center for Neighborhood Technology
• An Alternative to the Northwest Incinerator: Reducing Waste, Stimulating Economic Development and Creating Jobs Instead of Pollution (48 kb)
• Friends of the Earth
• Report on Municipal Waste Incineration - Birmingham, UK (38 kb)
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Recycling and Incineration: Evaluating the Choices
• Greenpeace
• Hazardous Waste Incineration Crisis (174 kb)
• US Hazardous Waste Incinerators (147 kb)
• Waste Incineration in Cement Kilns, USA (46 kb)
• Ohio Cement Kiln Trial Burn
• Let Earth Breath: No to Incineration (Europe) (19 kb)
• Burning Questions, Incineration In UK (44 kb)
• Incineration - Chlorine Connection
• Achieving Zero Dioxin (145 kb)
• Greenpeace and Waste Prevention Association
• Western Pyromania Moves East. A Case Study in Hazardous Technology Transfer (Central and Eastern Europe)
• National Toxics Campaign Fund
• Beyond the Rush to Burn: Alternatives to Hazardous Waste Incineration
• Tellus Institute and the JSI Center for Environmental Health Studies
• Incineration: Decisions for the 1990's A Guidebook for Citizens and Communities

Bulletins

• Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly availabe also at gopher site
• rehw508: How To Eliminate Dioxin [Waste incineration as the major source of dioxin]
• rehw479: National Dioxin Campaign
• rehw463: Dioxin and Health
• rhwn373: Invisible Killers: Fine Particles
• rhwn351: Municipal Incinerators Are Financial Disasters
• rhwn341: Incineration: New Evidence of Danger
• rhwn328: Update On Two Key Incinerator Battles
• rhwn325: Troubles Engulf Hazardous Waste Incineration
• rhwn318: 1992: Toxics: risk assessment, lead, incineration
• rhwn312: EPA: Hazardous Waste Incinerators Fail Regulations
• rhwn311: The Jacksonville, Arkansas Incinerator
• rhwn306: New Alternatives To Incineration
• rhwn281: Hazardous Waste Incinerators: Out of Control?
• rhwn280: Hazardous Waste Incinerators Fail, EPA Says
• rhwn277: Incineration Harms Bodies of Water
• rhwn242: Cement Kilns Burn Hazardous Waste
• rhwn237: Hazardous Incinerators: Widespread Deficiencies
• rhwn236: Emissions From A Hazardous Waste Incinerator
• rhwn215: Public Health Association Opposes Incineration of Solid Waste
• rhwn207: Real Alternatives To Incineration
• rhwn206: Citizens Slow Growth of Incineration
• rhwn203: Central Issue of Our Time (Recycling vs. Incineration of Solid Waste)
• rhwn198: Scientists Suspect Poisoning of Fish By Mercury From Incinerators
• rhwn192: Dump Now, The Children Pay Later [incinerator ash]
• rhwn179: Medical Incinerators Emit Metals And Dioxin
• rhwn174: Hazardous Waste Incineration In Cement Kilns
• rhwn162: Incineration Worsens Landfill Hazards
• rhwn143: New Incineration Video Stars Women of The Grass Roots Justice Movement
• rhwn136: Fine Particles 4. Harm To Humans
• rhwn132: Fine Particles 2. Incineration's Tiny Byproducts Cause Lung Disease
• rhwn131: Fine Particles 1. Dangers of Incineration
• rhwn105: Hazardous Waste Incinerators
• rhwn103: A Solution for The Incinerator Ash Crisis
• rhwn92: New Study Shows Incinerator Ash More Dangerous Than We Realized
• rhwn82: Incineration of Medical Waste
• rhwn45: Incinerators Make Dioxin
• rhwn36: 3. Garbage Incinerator Air Pollution
• rhwn35: 2. Garbage Incinerator Air Pollution
• rhwn31: 1: Garbage Incinerator Air Pollution
• rhwn22: Incinerator Ash is Dangerous
 
• WasteNot

Other Documents

• The Basel Convention document on Incineration on Land

 

• Types of Incinerators - tutorial by G.Pendelton and A.Ruepp

 

• The US EPA Air Pollution Technology Branch (APTB) - information on waste incineration technologies and emissions

 

• The US EPA Science Advisory Board reviewed the Agency's Waste Incineration Research Program (pdf file, 88 kb)

 

• The US EPA's Municipal Solid Waste Combustor Ash Demonstration Program - "The Boathouse" (pdf file, 48 kb)

 

• Ash handling from waste combustion by World Resource Foundation

 

• Report on waste incineration in Australia from the Australia Environment Protection Group

 

• Michigan Technological University
• The Correlation Between Heavy Metals and Dioxin Emissions In A Municipal Waste Incinerator
• Waste-To-Energy Facility Modeling - Fate and Transport of Heavy Metals
• Monitoring PCB and dioxin emissions: Rechem Hazardous Waste Incinerator, UK

 

• US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR):

Johnson Testimony on Incineration: Part 1 and Part 2