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Smokeless Medical Waste Incinerator HICLOVER Model YD-30M

Model YD-30M
Primary Combustion Chamber
Secondary Combustion Chamber
Mix Combustion Chamber
Smoke Filter Chamber
Incinerator  Control Case
Stainless Steel Chimney: 1.5 Meter
Italy oil/gas burner: 02 sets
Oil Tank (if oil fuel): 100Liters
Model YD-30M 
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Burning Rate  average 20 kgs/hour
Feed Capacity average 40 kgs/feeding
Paimary Combustion Chamber 200 Liters
Secondary Combustion Chamber 100 Liters
Mix Combustion Chamber Yes
Feed Mode Manual
Voltage 220V
Power 0.59Kw
Fuel Type Diesel Oil/Natural Gas/LPG
Burner Italy Original
Oil Consumption (Diesel Oil) average 8.4 kg/hour
Gas Consumption (Natural Gas) average 10.1 m3n/hour
Internal Dimensions 80 x 50 x 50cm (primary chamber)
External Dimensions 160*110*230cm (without chimney)
Temperature Monitor Yes
Oil Tank Capacity(if oil fuel) 100 Liters
Door Opening 40 x 36cm
Chimney Length 1.5 Meters
Chimney Type Stainless Steel
Equipment Gross Weight 1700 kgs
Operation Technical Specifications
Primary Chamber Temperature 800–1000
Secondary Chamber Temperature 1000-1200
Residency Time 2.0 Sec.
Burning Efficiency 98%
Waste Lower Calorific Power 3000Kcal

• Burning Waste: Medical Waste

• Fuel: diesel type, or gas type(natural gas or lpg), or both(exhcange oil-gas burner)

• Processing Capacity: 15 – 20 kg/hr  

• Door Size: 400mm x 360mm   

• Body Size: 1600*1100*2300mm(without chimney)

• Operating Temperature: 800 – 1200 deg. C   

• Double Chamber: Primary and Secondary Chambers   

• Internal lining:refractory cement

• Monitoring Facility for:  

• Supplied complete with chimney   

• Power Supply: 220-240V, 50Hz, 0.25kW

 



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HICLOVER Solution for Fighting COVID-19, Medical Waste Incinerator(Containerized Mobile Incinerator)

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Mobile: +86-13813931455(whatsapp/wechat)
Website: www.hiclover.com  
Email: [email protected]
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2020-07-07

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Dual heat burners and dual chamber incinerator Burning capacity up to 30 Kg per hour with wet scrubber

Dual heat burners and dual chamber incinerator Burning capacity up to 30 Kg per hour
Main Product List
Primary Combustion Chamber(Main body stainless steel)
Secondary Combustion Chamber(Main body stainless steel)
Mix-Combustion Chamber
Wet Scrubber( Washing Tower)(Main body stainless steel)
Incinerator Control Case
Chimney:5.0Meters  Stainless Steel
Italy gas burner: 02 sets
Oil Tank (if oil fuel): 100Liters

Model

YD-30C

Feed Capacity

Average 50 kgs per feeding

Burning Rate

Average 30 kgs per hour

Burning Time per Feed

2 hours

Voltage

380V

Power

6 Kw

Fuel

Natural Gas

Burner

Italy Burner

Feed Mode

Manual

Fuel consumption (Oil)

10.2-20.0 Kgs/Hour

Fuel consumption (Gas)

12.2-24.0m3/Hour

External Dimensions

170 x 140 x 190cm (main body)

Internal Dimensions

55 x 55 x 85cm(Primary Chamber)

Waste combustion chamber

250Liters

Post Combustion Chamber

140Liters

Oil Tank Capacity

100 Liters

Door Opening

38 x 48cm

Chimney

5.0M

Gross Weight

3300kgs

Chamber Material

Refractory Concrete

Max. Heat Value

200,000Kcal/Hr.

Operation Technical Specifications

Solid Chamber temperature

8000C -10000C

Gas Chamber temperature

10000C -12000C

Chamber Anti-Rate

13500C

Residency time

2.0 Sec.

Burning efficiency

98%

Waste Lower Calorific Power

3000Kcal

Water showering cyclone air cleaner Stain less steel 304 grade sheet for water scrub chamber
HICLOVER – Medical Environmental 


 
Waste Incinerators
Medical Waste Incinerator
Pet Animal Cremation
Solid Waste Incinerator

Tel:  +86-25-8461 0201   
Mobile: +86-13813931455(whatsapp/wechat)
Website: www.hiclover.com  
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]  
Nanjing Clover Medical Technology Co.,Ltd.

 

2020-02-26

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Solid Waste Incinerators

The Contractor shall provide a Cremation System package for  TWO (02) Cremators and system approved by related authority, which must fit into the allocated area as shown on the plan drawings. The work shall include but not limited to design preparation, authority design approval, supply, fabricate, construct, commissioning, testing, operational approval, provide training and also warranty of the system package. The work shall include all preliminaries, related civil and structural work, mechanical and electrical work and all external work required for the proper completion and operational of the system and as follows :The incinerator will be used for a group of private multi profile hospitals.

The hourly-generated waste is about 100kg per hour, but with 1000kg daily amount.

Due to the economic situation in Bulgaria now, our researches shows that a 100kg/hour system can fit the needs set in the project.

Please, offer us an Incinerator system that can match the parameters described above. We are ready to give information that is more detailed if you need such one. Within the technical specifications of you product we need to have full details of the parameters of exhaust gases, with all certificates you have about the environmental safety regarding EU directives.

1. All preliminaries which shall include but not limited to providing work insurances, taxes, mobilisation and demobilisation, contract management and supervision, design and professional fee, authority design approval, operational approval, site preparation, temporary storage, health environmental safety and security, setting out, CIDB levy, duties, deposits, fees, charges, contribution but not excluding only the bank guarantee to the authority JPP which shall be provided by the Client, progress reporting and other required preliminaries for successful completion of the work.This type of incinerator is what you have described as a ‘low temperature thermal decomposition incinerator’.  We can speed up the burning process by using hot air from a downstream process which can be fed back into the incinerator to raise the burning temperature.
considerably. These kinds of incinerators are the sort that would probably have been made and used many years ago before the anti pollution regulations were brought in. We believe that they would be very simple and cheap to manufacture for a company such as yours, as long as a large sales volume could be obtained. We believe that our technology will create a large need for this type of incinerator and would also make a good business opportunity for a company, such as Clover, who is able and willing to manufacture and supply them. I am sure that this simple type of incinerator could be easily modified to enable automatic charging and probably also automatic cleaning?

2. All structural, building and architectural work which includes but not limited to construction of all reinforced concrete work, chimney, structural steel work and all building work for all necessary requirements, operational and control panel system for proper completion and successful operation of the syste. The Contractor must make good all the works being disturbed.We want a very simple, single combustion chamber, incinerator which is capable of burning all types of waste and rubbish products. We will be treating the emissions from the incinerator in another process so we do not have to have scrubbing or other cleaning equipment to avoid pollution.
The incinerator is required to operate 24/7 continuously so it needs to be able to be cleaned whilst still operating. The waste materials being burned will contain non flammable materials and these will need to be cleared out of the incinerator. We would like this cleaning to be as simple as possible. The same applies to the loading of rubbish into the incinerator, which we would like to be able to be done automatically if possible.

3. All mechanical and eletrical works which includes but limited to supply, deliver and installation of all valves, penstock, screens, pumps, float swithces, flexible connector, pressure pipe works, blower, hot dipped galvanised lifting davits, air diffusers, hot dipped galvanised handrailings, hot dipped galvanised gratings, switch boards, cabling and wirings, lighting, earthing, metering, lighting protection, flow measurement and flow recorders, testing & comissioning and all necessary for proper completion and successful operational of the system.

TOTAL CARRIED TO COLLECTION

Design and Build approved gas cremation system
(Cont’d)

4. The Contractor shall provide and fully comply with all requirements by the related authority during design stage, design approval, inspection and after inspection, handing over of the system package whether it is clearly shown or not but deemed necessary for successful completion and satisfaction to the authority. The Contractor must allow in his tender price all direct and indirect cost at no extra cost to the Client for all such compliances.7.    Type of waste  : Bio-medical / Hazardous / Municipal / Trash  = ALL and Mixed
8.    Any other : Rubber, rubber tyres, Batteries, green waste, paper and cardboard
9.    Quantity of waste generated per day in kg : 3 -5 tonnes per day
10.    Duration – incinerator will be used per day : 1 – 8 hours / 1 – 16 hours / Continuous
11.    Approximate moisture content: Variable
12.    Local incinerator operating and emission standards : India / EURO / US-EPA  Australia
13.    What is the height of the chimney required? : No chimney is required. Flue length should be approximately 2 to 3 metres to join to a downstream process
14.    Fuel proposed to be used :  LDO / HSD / FO / SKO/ Gas / Other  – No fuel required – Intended to free burn waste products
15.    Availability of power and type : Electricity if required
16.    Details of space available :  Not restricted
17.    Do you require an automatic loading system? : [X ] Yes         [ ] No
18.    Do you require a gas scrubbing system? : [ ] Yes         [X ] No
19.    How soon do you require the system to be delivered? : Sea Freight to Port of Cairns, Queensland, Australia in approximately Two months
20.    City and country of use :  Australia
21.    Whether the location is a coastal area : [ ]Yes         [X ] No
22.    Any other specific requirements: Primary combustion chamber only is required. Solid and inflammable waste products need to be capable of being recovered from the incinerator easily using an automated procedure. This is because the incinerator will be required to operate 24/7. Rotary kiln or moving floor may be considered if deemed practical by the supplier. One initial incinerator is required for a proof of concept project and future orders for the successful supplier, following successful implementation of this project, are likely to be significant.
23.    It would be most useful if the supplier could send a video of the incinerator in operation or diagrams and pictures to show how it works.

5. The Contractor shall be responsible for all maintenance of the system, routine and periodical maintenance such as cleaning etc. during, upon completion, before and after inspection. The maintenance shall be in fully compliance to the authority requirements and satisfaction and shall be deemed included in the Contractor tender price and at no extra cost to the Client.

6. The Contractor must submit to the S.O their proposed system package detail, which includes authority approval and an A4 or A3 preliminary dimensioned system layout fitting into area allocated in the plan drawing.

7. For maintenance and services during Defect Liability Period, respond period to any complaint for the Contractor to attend shall be within 24hours

8. The Cremators package shall, inter alia, inclusive the following scope:

– Furnace Chamber and Afterburner

– Combustion System

– Control Panel

– Single refactory lined chimney for 2 cremators

– Flue Gas Sampling Platform

– Electrical wiring within the system requirements

– Raking Tools

– Ashbox

– Approval from DOE / Local Authority

– Any other scope/works required for the systems

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Medical Waste treatment unit

Medical Waste treatment unit

The medical waste treatment unit shall be environmentally-friendly, and have a capacity of
about 200-300kg per batch , to enable treatment of medical waste generated in a 160-bed
hospital
The equipment should be self-steam generating if
steam is needed for the sterilization process.
The medical waste treatment unit shall be capable of processing the following:
• Bagged waste, in ordinary bags.
• Sharps containers.
• Liquid containers.
• Cardboard containers.
• Metal objects.
• Pathological waste.
The medical waste treatment unit shall be able to
• mix the waste and shred it into small pieces
• sterilize the waste.
• Dehydrate the waste
• Compact the waste to reduce its volume
Unloading of treated waste shall be automatic, with further shredding facility
All operating features shall be safe, automated
1.  The entire cycle shall be computerized with all essential operating parameters locked in and
password protected.
2.  There shall be a documentation feature of the treatment cycle,
The unit shall have a manual mode of operation in case of failure of the automatic features
The following parameters shall be displayed:
1.  Power on
2.  sterilization indicator light
3.  auto/manual switch
4.  open door warning light
5.  steam pressure
6.  cycle chart recorder

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lab biological waste incineration

1- There are more than 4000 Cubic Meter sludge are packed in Plastic Bags & stored more than 10 years
2- Cleaning and treated 2500 Cubic Meters inside the Oil Tank.
– the waste is biological and coming from lab, can be heavily hazardous in case of terror attack or epidemics or similar events.
– the input is low and occasional, the lab is used when terror or epidemy alarm occures. But occasionly incineration of human or animal carcasses can be demanded.mobile incinerator to work along with a mobile biolab for first responders.is the smallest incinerator available in the market. incinerator of capacities of 10kg/h and 20 kg/h for hospital waste.

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Gas Incinerator medical waste

Recently one of clients informed us their intention to procure 1 unit Gas Incinerator.medical waste incinerator to burn the wastes of hospitals in Egypt , the capacity required is 5 tons per day.the medium incinerator that uses both electricity and oil.A SMALL PET CREMATORY WITH GAS

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hospital for burning hazardous waste and chimicals

use in the hospital for burning hazardous waste and chimicals, minimum Capacity 300 per hour. I will be reselling to my client?. Below is the information I was given and nothing else. The hospital incinerator for use in the clinical waste as required by international environmental management. Minimum 300 Kg capacity/hr, Fuel fired, refractory lined, chimney and sampling prot. Minimum temperature of 1100 degree Celsiu.the incinerator machine for burn 500kg per hour. project about burn medical waste of the hospitals.Just want to price of you various types of Medical Rubbish Incinerators.need all information on 300 kg per hour unit.  availability.  operational costs using diesel (other).the waste is Human Tissues. And we have 10 kg per day; we need incinerator for medical waste.Burn Capacity: 50kgs per hour (Average capacity according to Medical Waste).please forward information about pricing on all of you pet crematory models.Regarding Gas Incinerator, Please note that Fuel for the Incinerator
will be Gas. As gas is chip in our country.

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Double Combustion Chamber Containerized Mobile Incinerator

Waste Incinerator Mounted in ISO 20′ or 40′ Container before leave Factory. Regular Waste Burning Rate from 10kgs to 150kgs per hour.

Double Combustion Chamber

The incinerator design with primary combustion chamber, secondary combustion chamber(post combustion) and dry scrubber optional. This design will reduce black smoke, burn completely and Environmentally Friendly.

Free Installation

The incinerator mounted already in the container, complete with fuel system, electric system and the control case fixed already. Fix chimney and connect electric will be ready for operation.

Mobile Incinerator

Waste Incinerator Mounted in ISO 20′ or 40′ Container. It’s moveable with truck to anywhere or emergency requirement.

Containerized Incinerator

Rate: upto 150kgs per hour

Containerized Incinerator: we delivery incinerator and also container to customers, no requirement to build incineration house.

Double Combustion Chamber

Combustion Chamber: upto 1500Liters

Primary combustion for waste feeding and burning and secondary combustion to burn smoke only.

Incinerator Moveable by truck

Amount weight: 4Ton to 9Ton

Mobile function to anywhere or service to customer at their local site.

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Environmental Protection Solutions

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System Solutions for Medical Waste Environmental, including Waste Incineration, Smoke Emission Treatment, High-temperature Sterilization, Waste Crusher, Needle Destroyer, Medical Waste Package and Containerized Mobile Incinerators.

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Hypocritical Smoke: The Scandal of Medical Waste Incineration

The middle-class Foxboro subdivision in North Salt Lake City, Utah, is, in many ways, an idyllic community for young families – new, modest, similarly sized homes on fairly compact lots, close by neighbors connected by sidewalks and streetlights, tons of playmates for all the kids. And Mormon communities have lots of kids, munchkins if you will. Foxboro has a “Polyanna” feel to it, not unlike a Mormon “Land of Oz.”

But a dark cloud hangs over Foxboro, sometimes literally. On a recent Friday evening in late summer, Foxboro was having a neighborhood 5K run/walk for the hundreds of families that live in the area. Suddenly, it looked like the Wicked Witch of the West had arrived: thick black smoke and flames billowed from a well-known industrial neighbor right next to the subdivision. Children became frightened. Some of them screamed that they couldn’t breathe and ran into other people’s houses to get away from the smoke. Parents panicked. Chaos descended on the race participants. A local resident took this video near the end of the episode.

Watching the video, one really expects to hear the Wicked Witch cackle, “I’ll get you and your little dog, too.”

Within the next half hour, I started getting e-mails from people from as far away as 40 miles complaining about the smoke and a distinct chemical smell, different from the occasional wind-whipped sulfur odor that sweeps in from the west, where the Great Salt Lake lies. In about 20 minutes, the smoke was gone, but the chemical smell lingered much longer. The next day, I got more e-mails from people who were experiencing a variety of respiratory symptoms and wondered what they had been exposed to.

The “Wicked Witch of the West” event was just the latest of many similar episodes involving Foxboro’s nonfictional villain – Stericycle, the medical waste incinerator. Stericycle’s North Salt Lake incinerator, however, is emblematic of a much larger issue: Via the front door, hospitals and clinics are purveyors of healing, well-being and saving lives. But out the back door, they often spread toxins and disease through a waste stream that is conveniently, but dangerously, burned into ashes by incinerators like Stericycle.

The story of North Salt Lake’s Stericycle facility is typical of what has happened in many communities throughout the country. The facility has been controversial for at least two decades. Even back when it was first permitted, there was concern about the health consequences of its emissions. The permit was approved by the Utah Air Quality Board by a one-vote margin. Legislation at the time prohibited such facilities from being within one mile of residences.

Around 2003, the county Planning and Zoning Commission received a proposal from the Foxboro developer to subdivide the land north and east of Stericycle into a large residential community. Part of the commission’s decision to grant Foxboro approval was based on discussions with the Division of Air Quality and the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste. Both divisions were not forthright with information to the commission. They apparently claimed there were no “upset conditions.” Foxboro’s proposal was approved, and homes were built literally up against the wall of the incineration property, resulting in families living just feet from the incinerator smokestack, with some families literally sharing a backyard fence with Stericycle. This satellite photo showing the black soot on Stericycle’s roof and its close proximity to homes provokes the gnawing realization of what these families are breathing in 24/7.

Stericycle operates six incinerators in the US and is the largest medical waste treatment and disposal company in the country. Waste incinerators are serious public health hazards. Large studies have shown higher rates of adult and childhood cancers and birth defects among people who live around incinerators. Those results are consistent with the associations being causative. For example, a study of 14 million people followed for 13 years revealed an increase in cancer deaths of 11,000 people among those that lived within 7.5 kilometers of an incinerator.1,2 The cancer risk doubled for children living within 5 kilometers of an incinerator.3

This body of medical research is sufficiently robust to have precipitated a nationwide citizen movement to have these facilities closed. In fact, during the past 15 years, 98 percent of the 2,373 medical waste incinerators have closed; only 33 remain in operation. While thousands of communities have become cleaner as a result, in Utah things have gotten worse. Stericycle now accepts waste from eight surrounding states to be incinerated at its North Salt Lake plant. The city is serving as the sacrificial lamb for most of the western United States. In addition to medical waste, including human fluids and tissue, Stericycle is allowed to incinerate animal carcasses (more about that below).

As with most incinerators, the health consequences are not so much the high-volume pollutants, like particulate matter, ozone, NOx or SO2, but the amount of the hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) that are designated as such by the EPA because of their high level of toxicity, even at minute concentrations. HAPs include benzene, dioxins, furans, heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and even radioactive elements. Stericycle officially emits a similar volume of HAPs as a full-scale oil refinery or coal-fired power plant. But the emissions are released from a much shorter stack; therefore local deposition is greater. Stericycle’s permit allows it to emit 130 pounds of lead per year, 912 pounds of chlorine, 18 pounds of cadmium and 60 pounds of mercury. The total amount of HAPs allowed in its permit is 9.51 tons per year.

Most toxic heavy metals are not combustible, do not degrade, cannot be destroyed, accumulate in the local environment after leaving Stericycle’s smokestack, and accumulate in the bodies of everyone for miles around. They have been implicated in a range of emotional and behavioral problems in children – including autism, dyslexia, ADHD, learning difficulties and delinquency – and in adults – dementia, depression and Parkinson’s disease. Increased rates of autism and learning disabilities have been found around sites that release mercury into the environment, like coal power plants and incinerators.4 Utah has the highest rates of autism in the nation, double the national average. That fact alone should compel our state leaders to deal with every possible contributor to this public health disaster. Sources of heavy metal pollution should be first on that list.

A study by The National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that it was not only the health of workers and local populations that are affected by incinerators. It stated that, “Persistent air pollutants, such as dioxins, furans and mercury can be dispersed over large regions – well beyond local areas and even the countries from which the sources emanate,”5 meaning that Stericycle is far from an issue affecting its immediate neighbors only.

Incinerators do not eliminate hazardous substances; they concentrate them, redistribute them, and even create new ones, such as dioxins. In addition to dioxins, they emit chlorine, mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium, ammonia and benzene – spreading miles from the smokestack, eventually inhaled by local residents or swallowed when they eat vegetables from their gardens, or their children play on a backyard swing set. Dioxins are likely the most toxic manmade substance known after plutonium. Many of these chemicals are both toxic and bio-accumulative, building up over time in the body insidiously with the risk of chronic effects from even very low, continuous exposure.

For multiple physiologic and biologic reasons, children and fetuses are at significantly increased risks from many of these incinerator emissions. One example is illustrative of the point. Many of these HAPs concentrate in human fetuses or in human breast milk. A nursing infant may consume 10 to 50 times as much dioxin as the average adult and is much more vulnerable to its toxicity. Six months of breast feeding will transfer 20% of a mother’s lifetime accumulation of organochlorines (like dioxins) to her nursing child.6 No risk assessment about Stericycle has paid any attention to whether or not their dioxin emissions are causing human breast milk of Utah’s mothers to be unsafe.

The combined impact of extensive geographic spread of incinerator emissions and bioaccumulation is starkly revealed by what has been discovered in the Inuit Native Americans in the polar region of Northern Canada. Inuit mothers here have twice the level of dioxins in their breast milk as Canadians living in the South. There is no source of dioxin within 300 miles. A study tracking emissions from 44,000 sources of dioxin in North America, combining data on toxic releases and meteorological records revealed the leading contributors were three municipal incinerators in the USA.7,8

Medical waste incinerators are even more hazardous than other incinerators for two reasons. Radioactive elements like potassium-40, uranium, thorium, cesium and strontium are ubiquitous in low concentration in human bodies and animal carcasses, and when tons of carcasses and body parts are incinerated, all those radioactive elements are concentrated and released up the smokestack.

Just as disturbing is the fact that prions, the highly infective mutated proteins that cause Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs), i.e. Mad Cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease in deer and elk and Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (CJD) in humans – all uniformly fatal – are almost undoubtedly present in Stericyle’s waste stream. Prions are so infective that pathologists do not want to touch tissue from a suspected victim, be it human or animal. So the diagnosis is usually never made. And most of the time, there is no way that Stericycle would even know whether prions are in the waste stream headed for the smokestack then distributed throughout North Salt Lake. Prions are frighteningly resistant to destruction, including incineration. I’ll have a more detailed depiction of the issue of prions in a subsequent essay. A detailed report on the health consequences of waste incinerators is available online.

Any incinerator would represent a serious risk to public health in our community. As dramatic and intuitively dangerous as the video seems, it better serves a larger point. Any incinerator has start-ups and shutdowns and other “events” that result in the bypass of pollution-control equipment on a regular basis. In fact “pollution events” this severe may not represent a permit violation – which shows how out of control this situation has become.

Studies at other incinerators show that “bypass events” may be occurring 10 percent of the time. Dioxins produced during start-ups can be twice the annual dioxin emissions under steady state conditions. Spot monitoring, as is done by the Utah Division of Air Quality (DAQ), has been shown to be grossly inadequate and likely underestimates the actual dioxin and heavy metal emissions by 30-50 times. The best managed incinerator would still be a community health hazard.

This facility is anything but “best managed.” In layman’s terms, the DAQ has caught Stericycle falsifying its records, intentionally loading the incinerator with material that does not represent its normal feedstock in order to pass their emissions test – in other words cheating. And the DAQ has found Stericycle emitting hundreds of times more dioxins and furans than Stericycle’s permit allows (public health protection would demand that the company not be allowed to emit any). We were told by the DAQ that this facility is now under criminal investigation at the state and federal level.

An internal DAQ email quotes a subcontractor for Stericycle stating that the company is pressuring its manager to “push the limits of the plant.” Further, the comment is made that the manager recently received a huge raise and promotion and “that as a result, they are now demanding more and more of him.” The manager is complaining that “he is under a lot of pressure from his managers to feed more and more waste through the plant and that the plant can’t handle what they want it to do.” “Bypass events” like the one captured on video are all too predictable from a corporation that prioritizes profit over safety.

Hospitals and clinics are not innocent bystanders. As health care centers, it is ironic and indefensible for them to dispose of their waste in a manner that harms community health. The International Red Cross states, “Hospitals are responsible for the waste they produce. They must ensure that the handling, treatment and disposal of that waste will not have harmful consequences for public health or the environment.”

Neither is the EPA an innocent bystander. An appeal of Stericycle’s permit has been sitting on its desk since 2009. As a result of multiple recent community protests of Stericycle’s operations, the EPA has finally consented to address the appeal by mid-October 2013.

Incineration of medical waste is a business that simply shouldn’t exist. No useful product is produced; no needed service is performed. There are safer technologies, like steam autoclaving and burial. Several countries have committed to eliminating incineration as a destination for medical waste. The United States is not one of them. In fact the list of “enlightened” countries is not what you might expect – Ireland, Slovenia, Portugal and the Philippines.

Although many American communities are breathing cleaner air because of widespread closure of incinerators, North Salt Lake, and Foxboro residents in particular, are needlessly “taking a hit” for the team. Normally Mormon suburbs are bastions of political and cultural conservatism, reservoirs of quiet capitulation and obedience to authority. But in Foxboro, with town hall meetings, protest marches and rallies in the Capitol in front of the governor’s office, they are mounting an unwillingness to remain victims of Stericycle’s profiteering. They even convinced Erin Brockovich to come to Foxboro and lend her fame and legal muscle to the battle.

Foxboro has learned the wisdom of 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass. “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” The residents of Foxboro are no longer quietly submitting to the mistake that is Stericycle, and they are exposing the nationwide scandal that is medical waste incineration.

Information from: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/19069-hypocritical-smoke-the-scandal-of-medical-waste-incineration

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