hospital medical waste incinerator News

EPA is setting new limits that will affect most existing hospital, medical, and infectious waste incinerators. This final action will reduce about 390,000 pounds of several pollutants each year including acid gases, nitrogen oxides, and metals such as lead, cadmium, and mercury. EPA is also finalizing additional testing, monitoring, and inspection requirements. This final action revises the ...

Sep. 17, 2009

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new limits on air emissions will affect most existing hospital, medical, and infectious waste incinerators (HMIWI). This final action will reduce about 390,000 pounds of several pollutants each year including acid gases, nitrogen oxides, and metals such as lead, cadmium, and mercury. The agency also is finalizing additional testing, monitoring, and ...

Sep. 26, 2009

By Custom Stack Analysis, LLC.

Every day the WHO states that every single person has an active role in the containment of the infection, we can cooperate to overcome this epidemic simply following a few but important indications: by wearing masks, cleaning hands with sanitizers, practicing social distancing. With these simple precautions we could help those who are in the front line against COVID-19: Doctors and Healthcare ...

May 8, 2020

By For.Tec. Forniture Tecnologiche S.r.l.

Envitech recently got noticed in a local news story by Michael Chen of Channel 10 News, “Local Company Helps Dispose of Ebola-tainted Waste”. The story talks about the challenges of processing Ebola waste and how Envitech’s Medical Waste Incinerator Scrubber at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) was used to dispose of waste generated by an Ebola patient in ...

Nov. 5, 2014

By Envitech, Inc.

The shortlist has been announced for the UK Sustainability & Resource Industry Awards, organised by CIWM on behalf of the industry. The Industry Awards recognise and reward innovation, achievement and best practice in the sustainable management of waste and resources, both within the waste sector and across a range of client sectors including construction and facilities management. The 2014 ...

Oct. 8, 2014

By Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM)

A devastating earthquake occurs in Haiti. An outbreak of Ebola is reported in Africa. A volcano destroys half of the Caribbean island of Montserrat. What do they have in common? In each case, Elastec’s MediBurn was employed to assist in the recovery. MediBurn is a diesel fueled medical waste incinerator designed for use in hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, laboratories, blood banks and ...

Apr. 18, 2017

By Elastec

According to the Ontario Waste Management Association (OWMA) beginning January 1, 2010, regulated facilities will be required to track, report and develop plans to reduce the toxic substances they use, create and release. This applies only to facilities currently reporting on emissions to the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI). These toxics reduction plans will be available to the ...

Dec. 14, 2009

By The Compliance Center (ICC)