NewsRack: 'Incinerators' news in 'Waste' topic for user dharmesh

Kottakkal gets controversial mobile incinerator (Cached)	18.6.2013	TOI: All Headlines
Kottakkal gets controversial mobile incinerator
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Trash to cash: Norway leads the way in turning waste into energy	14.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
UK cities pay to send rubbish to Norwegian incinerators, but green campaigners warn of dangers For a country blessed with bountiful oil supplies, it may appear incongruous. But Norway is importing as much rubbish as it can get its hands on, in an effort to generate more energy by burning waste in vast incinerators. The Eurotrash business may sound like an unpromising enterprise, but it's one that is increasingly profitable. The UK paid to send 45,000 tonnes of household waste from Bristol and Leeds to Norway between October 2012 and April this year. "Waste has become a commodity," says Pål Spillum, head of waste recovery at the Climate and Pollution Agency in Norway. "There is a big European market for this, so much so that the Norwegians are accepting rubbish from other countries to feed the incinerator." He refuses to divulge the sums involved, saying only that the market is growing. Spillum is "considering requests" to burn waste from other UK towns. "As a rule we generate about 50% of ...
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Manacaud Teachers' Training Institute gets e-toilets	14.6.2013	newindianexpress.com

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Garbage burning emits significant amounts of toxic pollutants, particulates	13.6.2013	MinnPost
Hennepin County is moving ahead with a plan to increase burning by 20 percent at the downtown Minneapolis incinerator. Shawn Lawrence Otto's recent Community Voices commentary attacking "urban liberals and left leaning environmental groups" misrepresents basic scientific and political fact. His missive in support of garbage burning repeats 40-year-old discredited industry talking points, and paints an inaccurate picture of incineration opponents. With regard to air pollutants, Otto claims that incinerators emit "near zero" air emissions. In fact, incinerators account for significant emissions of some of the most toxic air pollutants on the planet. Incinerators are a major emitter of fine particulates and add climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency recently identified 118 point sources of criteria pollutants in the city of Minneapolis. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines these pollutants as having significant ...
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Incinerators' incentives are to burn, not to recycle	10.6.2013	MinnPost
In Shawn Lawrence Otto’s Community Voices commentary, “ Waste-to-energy technology is cleaner and safer than generally believed ,” he acknowledges "maximum recycling effort should be put in to remove all recycables and compostables before the remaining waste is disposed of in a landfill or a WTE facility." Agreed. However, when he states, "Evidence shows recycling and WTE are complementary," I ask: What evidence? I have yet to be presented an incinerator contract that includes "maximized" recycling, or any significant recycling other than the removal of "white goods." If you read the contracts of the two companies that operate the 89 facilities in the U.S., you'll find incentives to burn in order to increase electricity production. Also, the service operator can receive additional payments (what I have termed "burning bonuses") if additional material is "processed," aka burned. Within the contracts there are no processes (nor incentives) to recover recyclable material. Additionally, Frederick ...
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Schools in city to get sanitary napkin vending machines soon	8.6.2013	newindianexpress.com

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Zero waste? Reduce, reuse, recycle	6.6.2013	Minnesota Public Radio: News
Zero waste proponents can imagine a world in which nothing goes into a landfill or an incinerator, and all of our discarded materials become resources for others to use. Three experts discuss the trash ecosystem, at the Commonwealth Club of California.
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Rs.39-crore sanitation project awaits Central nod	6.6.2013	Hindu: Cities
Focus on infrastructure to manage waste
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SWM facility in Kuthambakkam challenged by the locals	5.6.2013	newindianexpress.com

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What a waste!	5.6.2013	newindianexpress.com

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Fines expected in Stericycle pollution violations	4.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jun 3, 2013 05:15PM MDT State regulators already have cited Stericycle’s medical waste incinerator in North Salt Lake for violating pollution and record-keeping standards, and soon their attention will turn to fines. “Penalties, I’d say, are a certainty,” said Bryce Bird, director of the Utah Division of Air Quality on Monday. Last week his office issued a notice of violation against the Illinois-based company for exceeding its permitted emissions of nitrogen oxides, which contribute to Utah’s summer and winter polluti... ...
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'Breaking Barriers' to be launched on June 7	31.5.2013	newindianexpress.com

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Utah incinerator agrees to EPA fine	31.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
the Salt Lake Tribune Published May 30, 2013 02:52PM MDT Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc., which operates an industrial waste incinerator and landfill in Tooele County, has agreed to pay a $39,900 penalty for failure to properly report chemicals manufactured and used on site. “The failure of a facility to appropriately file toxic release forms deprives the public of its right to know and undermines efforts to prevent pollution and respond to potential emergencies,” said Mike Gaydosh, enforcement director of the U.S. Environmental Protection A... ...
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Napkin incinerators help maintain cleanliness	30.5.2013	Mangalore - City - The Times of India
To maintain cleanliness on school campuses, the Dakshina Kannada district Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) has started constructing napkin incinerators in toilets of government higher primary schools to help girl students dispose napkins in a hygienic way.
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Check if Okhla plant emits toxic gases: Green Tribunal to pollution control boards (Cached)	28.5.2013	Indian Express: Delhi
To ensure safety of Okhla residents living near a waste-to-energy plant that incinerates waste for fuel, the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday ordered government officials to check whether the plant''s emissions contain heavy metals.
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Energy-from-waste facilities get green light across UK	28.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Investors show appetite for a mix of technologies as landfill diversion takes hold and new infrastructure comes on-stream In south London, Viridor has finally got the go-ahead to build an energy recovery facility next to its landfill site in Beddington. The incinerator will provide South London Waste Partnership and businesses with a cost-effective alternative to landfill and also bring forward the completion and restoration of the existing landfill into green spaces and wildlife habitats. Viridor's head of development projects Robert Ryan said the ERF was "the right solution for South London's waste challenge and is one that will deliver real economic, social and environmental benefits". Further north, Peel Environmental has received the green light from City of York Council to build an anaerobic digestion (AD) and horticultural glasshouse facility on a former mining site in the region. The AD plant will recover heat and electricity from up to 60,000 tonnes of organic waste per ...
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PWD's e-toilet for eves ready for use in Kochi (Cached)	28.5.2013	TOI: All Headlines
PWD's e-toilet for eves ready for use in Kochi
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Eco-friendly napkin incinerators given to 25 schools and colleges	23.5.2013	Hindu: Tiruchirapalli
With the State government taking the initiative to provide sanitary napkins free of cost to adolescent girls, campaigners of the menstrual hygiene movement can now shift focus to safe disposal of n...
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Fuel turns mobile incinerator a 'hot potato'	22.5.2013	newindianexpress.com

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Voters oust mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in primary	22.5.2013	Chicago Tribune: Nation
Voters oust mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in primary
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