Incinerator Info Archive

Central Australia’s animal graveyard

The figure was revealed in the Alice Springs regional waste management facility report for October. The dead pet you asked the vet to dispose of will end up buried in landfill, in most places across the country, and Alice Springs is no …

An Unexpected Ebola Infrastructure Problem: Waste

Patients with this debilitating virus produce 440 gallons of medical waste daily, including instruments, gowns, gloves, body fluids, sheets, mattresses and more. That’s a substantial amount of medical waste in any situation, but it’s especially daunting in this case because it needs …

Another challenge: disposing of waste

A single Ebola patient treated in a U.S. hospital will generate eight 55-gallon barrels of medical waste each day. Protective gloves, gowns, masks and booties are donned and doffed by all who approach the patient’s bedside and then discarded. Disposable medical instruments, …

Adjumani Hospital incinerator blows up

ADJUMANI. The incinerator at Adjumani Hospital, which was built four years ago, has burst due to overheating. For the past four months, support staff at the hospital have been dumping medical waste within the enclosure of the incinerator instead of burning it. …

Texas Ebola waste will not be disposed in Louisiana

On Friday Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced the State of Louisiana reached an agreement with Texas incinerator Veolia Environmental Services and Louisiana hazardous waste landfill Chemical Waste Management to ensure that incinerator ash associated with the recent Dallas Ebola virus occurrence will …