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Disposal methods of the past ... |
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Disposal methods of the present … |
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Incinerators, autoclaves, rotary kilns, |
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microwaves, chemical disinfectant, etc. ... |
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The remaining residues (sometimes hazardous)
from these technologies are shipped
to local landfills after processing. |
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Incinerators are being forced to close primarily
due to new Federal EPA Regulations on toxic air contaminants ... |
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Landfills are full & closing at an alarming
rate … |
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Fact: All landfills eventually leach into the
ground water and contaminate the air. |
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The volume of medical and hazardous waste
generated continues to grow … |
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Hospitals want out of the waste business … |
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Generators maintain a lifetime of legal
liability from the waste they generate ... |
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Existing “alternative technologies” fail to resolve the
long-term problem … |
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Offering only short-term solutions … |
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Industry and Government have not encouraged new
and innovative technologies that offer a better, safer method of waste
disposal … |
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For Special, Non-Hazardous & Hazardous Waste
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Incineration (usually solid waste) - The bulk of
the waste is still present after
burning (combustion). Requires
disposal of hazardous ash to a hazardous waste landfill. |
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All incinerators produce dioxins (super poisons)
- Dioxin’s toxicity, gram-for-gram,
is as potent a carcinogen as plutonium (Pu 239) ... |
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Hospital incinerators can produce up to 1,000
times more dioxins than a municipal
or a hazardous waste incinerator ... |
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Most incinerators will produce an average of 600
pounds of hazardous ash from every 2,000 pounds of waste it burns … |
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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that ash from
municipal solid waste incinerators has to be regulated as a hazardous waste
... |
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All incinerator ash “retains toxicity” - FOREVER! |
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For Special, Non-Hazardous & Hazardous Waste
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Cement Kilns (usually liquid waste) - Are
expensive incinerators, and major polluters, that use cut throat pricing
tactics in competition with
other incinerators .. |
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Not designed or built to operated as waste
dispose facilities. |
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Are listed as the second highest source of
dioxin in the U.S. .. |
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Loopholes in current regulations allow
processing of high-BTU
hazardous waste … EPA is set to make standards even more stringent. |
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Cement products are now contaminated with heavy
metals & dioxins .. |
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All cement kilns emit: |
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higher levels of harmful particulate matter. |
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higher levels of carbon monoxide. |
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higher levels of nitrogen oxides. |
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higher volumes of heavy metals. |
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higher concentrations of dioxins, furans, and
PCBs. |
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higher amounts of all acid gases such as
hydrogen chloride. |
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high stack opacity. |
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For Special, Non-Hazardous & Hazardous Waste
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Landfills - When most waste streams, or ash from
any incinerator are disposed of
in a landfill - it is a disaster waiting to happen, perhaps even a future EPA superfund
site … |
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All
landfills leach into the ground water - much sooner than anticipated ... |
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Even those with the best available liners, such
as: synthetic, polymer, plastic,
concrete, etc. |
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All ash
contains concentrated levels of toxic metals ... |
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lead, cadmium, chromium, mercury, arsenic, etc. |
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All
landfills leak harmful toxic air emissions into the air for decades ... |
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Benzene, toluene, xylene, vinyl chloride,
trichloroethylene, MEK, MIBK, hexane, chloroform, ethyl benzene, methylene
chloride, etc. |
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The
Real Problem is Stored for Future Generations … |
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No
existing or competing technology destroys non-hazardous or hazardous waste
as the robust process of
HI’s & PEAT’s patented plasma process … None ... |
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With the approach of the 21st century, we are
facing some very serious challenges in the field of waste management … |
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We need to ask ourselves: |
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Isn’t it time we start taking our waste disposal
business more seriously, and think long-term instead of short-term ? |
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Isn’t it time we stop using outdated
technologies that have proven to be inadequate at destroying the waste ? |
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Isn’t it time we stop placing future generations
at risk, when the technology is available “NOW” to cost effectively solve the problem ? |
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