Incinerators in a sentence

For the take-back program, Maine will rely on yet-to-be determined incinerators out of state, according to the department.

Plastics are an important component of the waste fed into incinerators.

And wastewater facilities can sell biosolids to generate revenue to offset treatment costs and reduce waste sent to landfills or incinerators.

More dioxins are produced in a burn barrel as compared to large incinerators, because of low oxygen and lower temperature.

Pratt claimed: “Not only is incineration limiting recycling efforts and contributing to climate breakdown, but the pollution from burning our waste is toxic too and becoming increasingly harmful to those who live near incinerators.

We have made really important changes, with record funding for nature restoration and walking, wheeling and cycling as well as ending permission for new incinerators.

Without much financial incentive to recover and reuse them, humanity sends 80 percent of polyolefins to landfills, incinerators or out into the wider world as litter.

Baltimore Del. Robbyn Lewis, a Democrat, said lawmakers will seek to take incinerators off the list of facilities that benefit from green energy credits.

I'm not sure, but I'd think that there aren't really incinerators set up for this sort of thing.

Sam Chetan Welsh, political campaigner at Greenpeace, said: “Incinerators are an unnecessary byproduct of our addiction to single-use, throwaway items.

A recent report by Deloitte that Canada recycles just 9 per cent of its plastics with the rest dumped in landfill and incinerators or tossed away as litter.

Dr Vinod Mughad, Block Health Officer, says vending machines for sanitary napkins have been installed in schools and in 67 schools, steel incinerators have been provided for easy disposal of napkins.

State officials marshalled incinerators to burn the corpses, and contamination persisted in waterways until the spring.

While true, keep in mind that a fair bit of plastic waste ends up in incinerators rather than landfills (at least around me).

Recent information is showing for example that dioxin levels in populations near incinerators in Lisbon and Madeira have not risen since the plants began operating in 1999 and 2002 respectively.

The next largest sources of dioxin in the EPA inventory are medical and municipal waste incinerators. citation Various studies have been conducted that reach contradictory results.

There are different types of incinerators which vary depending on the characteristics of the waste.

To comply with the EU emission limit of 0.1 ng I-TEQ/m3 modern incinerators operate in conditions minimising dioxin formation and are equipped with pollution control devices which catch the low amounts produced.

Waste-to-energy incinerators produce both electricity and heating.